Do we learn with our mistakes?
Today... woke up(pretty late would say), it was so good, lying in bed just thinking it was sunday, and didnt need to be in a hurry to get out...
so... made some breakfast and started reading a paper... the headline was about the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp in poland, a place of nightmare that plumbed new dephs of human depravity. And i thought, do we really learn with our mistakes? Sometimes i think not... because sometimes we rightly say, never again, but action is much harder... it is easy saying then put it in action....
The world has, to its shame, failed more than once to prevent genocide, lots of examples.. many wars.. and yet even after a century that witnessed the blood-drenched regimes of Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung, Hitler´s ¨final solulion¨ stands alone, not for its scale of barbarity, but for the way it organized the murder of millions as you would an industrial process. It is unspeakable... i keep thinking that after that we still didnt learn our lesson... the Holocaust stands not just as a memory but as a warning, that this is what we are capable of, because it was not just the work of a few madmen, but was carried out with the cumplicity of millions of ordinary people that turned a blind eye.
... it is human nature to push against the limits of the possible... we can only hope that, having shown how low we can sink, we never feel the need to go there again...
So, do you think we do learn with our mistakes?
