Armin talks about why it is important to remember the holocaust.
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You're definitely right here, the Only data for our society to improve on is history, and as humans we thrive a lot when we see all these past experience and learn from them. We can never have the perfect kind of existence but we Only need to be better than the last experience by learning from it. Lovely video here with beautiful message.
You really hit well. Our history is one aspect that needs great improvement.... Cos there is no future without the past. For we to have a great future we need to look deep into our past and understand it so well
Important to never forget what happened so that it never happens again, and just as important to realize that, as a species, we are so capable of allowing it to happen again. Scapegoating "the other" is a hallmark of human behavior that needs to be curbed.
I agree, we must preserve, study, analyze and spread history; otherwise, the most outrageous "omissions" can be made and we'd be doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.
Ironically, though, the Nazi holocaust, which is one of the most/better documented ones, is also one of the most controversial ones. We have countries like Iran blatantly denying that such a thing ever happened, and many people around the world, moved by ideological sympathies more than by evidence and reason, buy into that narrative and set up the stage for future holocausts.
I am not very optimistic about the future of humanity, even though science and technology, especially those used in media outlets, promised us a lot in terms of tools to record and preserve history. There is a lot of audio and video evidence of crimes committed worldwide; well, that has not done much to even stop those crimes from continuing being committed, let alone to stop similar crimes elsewhere.
After millions of Jews were killed, many other peoples have. You mentioned the Armenians. There were also the Tutsis in Rwanda butchered by the Hutus. And the list goes on and on. One of my greatest fears, and I believe the technology and the twisted minds are out there to make it a dark reality, is that, as it happened in Orwell’s novel (1984), dictators and criminals will eventually delete or altered any record we think we have and thus be able to rewrite history in any form they please.
The blockchain has been offered as a promising alternative or even remedy to that kind of totalitarianism. I hope it can actually delivered that promise.
Excellent write-up @hlezama. Thank you :)
Thank you, guys, for providing the forum for these things to be said and discussed.
If you don't know the story you are condemned to repeat it
Why so many conflicts in a beautiful world?
Yes you are right. It is with the past that we build the present. I hope it never happens again.
We must remember this genocide in order to prevent it from happening again.