this is an interesting poking-at of the evolution of a historical reference point over time--possibly the single most important reference point for Americans since 1945https://twitter.com/kilovh/status/1211088661636419584 …
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(earlier discussion)https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1210824317711208450?s=19 …
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what I esp. like here is the new time dimension
@kilovh takes one story and tracks its elevation to mythical (here I emphasize in the "moral teaching" sense of the word rather than "fake") status, and its subsequent functional generalization, dilution, and perhaps disputation1 reply 0 retweets 8 likesShow this thread -
the Holocaust seems frankly impotent as a reference story today at once applied to everything (immigrant detention, Israel(!)), and to nothing (how are the Uyghers moving policy? how did we act in 1994?)
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A related idea (if you ask me) is the Etruscan /saeculum/: the complete turnover of a population, past which no living person has a firsthand memory of an event I think this is more important in the life of a people than is often understood
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Yes, we can read (and perhaps forget) firsthand accounts; but few will retain them, fewer will learn much of their original context, and no one living will have the consequences etched in their bones But the first generation all /lived/ it
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The True Holocaust--the Holocaust of this world--lived with the generation that experienced it or saw it in the wild. They are almost passed now, and no museum will tell the story with fidelity. So with all things.
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when I read the phrase "True Holocaust" my brain unbidden gave me "maybe the real Holocaust was the friends we made along the way!" my brain is awful
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oh NOOOOO its ok none of us is free from sin
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