Thought of the Day from Friday, January 17th, 2014 In Responses to Wiesel’s Night: There are many different experiences that can bring out the idea of human suffering. The most prolific one is brought out in the last century in the form of the Holocaust. Those that had survived such an atrocious event were changed forever and remerged into the world with increased resilience. There is a certain realization that is achieved when experiencing genocide for the first time; the wholesale slaughter of millions is never justified through those forces that exercise ideas of justice. When a population is condemned to death an atrocity is brought to life because the individual suffering from such an event does not necessarily need to be among the deceased. A friend or family member that is claimed by genocide creates an attachment to the event that cannot be shaken at all despite our deepest and most sincere efforts. Coming to terms with the cause of any atrocity is the best way how we can interpret its happening in the clearest manner possible. The events that lead to the outbreak of atrocity are surrounded by towering beacons of ignorance. Those that follow through with such a thing do so because blind and arbitrarily faith is invested into an elite vision of the world. In the case with the Nazis, they scapegoated to achieve power and as a result went on to persecute any person or interest that opposed their ironclad agenda for the world. Wiesel’s Night describes a struggle that was hurled onto the main character without warning. Waking up to a world that radically changes for the worst creates a dangerous environment where a former friend or neighbor could suddenly turn into an enemy. That is what happens when elite ideological visions emerge into society’s center stage. The common population is looking for answers in a way where they can achieve a better way of life. When masses of people are suffering under economic hardship and depression, population centers are quick to scapegoat. Wiesel had fallen victim to that in addition to seven million that did not share the same ideological vision that defined the quintessential ideological principle of Nazism; one does not necessarily need to agree with such a worldview, but not belonging to the preordained ideological parameters of it delivers the same death sentence as not agreeing. When prospects for scapegoating emerge into the center stage enemies are identified and populations are mobilized to target them. It is rather ironic to observe how willingly obedient masses of people are to orders that are literally dished out through arbitrary commands. Unfortunately, a nation’s culture will play into that which encourages the promotion of a society that answers to ironclad absolutes that awards blind obedience. A person that questions is the first person to be targeted in the crosshairs of the ideological elitists who is also the architect for genocide. People are also afraid of what they don’t understand and when that joins forces with methods that bring about scapegoating a population can be convinced to do just about anything. Wiesel suddenly found himself as a newly proclaimed enemy in a nation that he only knew as home. His identity was reason enough for his own enslavement and wholesale slaughter. The history of the human experience is rampant with all of these occurrences. Those that don’t ideologically or racially belong by a scapegoating ideology are targeted as absolute enemies; that communicates a generic idea that applies to any nation that has experienced the wholesale slaughter of a population all under the alias of open genocide. This is a clear indication of realism which underlines what people are capable of when pushed by fear and scapegoating which unfortunately results in the death of millions when occurrences of genocide become a prevailing reality.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 02:29:30 +0000
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