- After such a 'universal' disaster, be it war or Holocaust or cultural revolution, how in good faith could one live and even make families, reproduce? If in the previous world we wanted to die, why would we reproduce that world again?
- moreover, is it still ethical to live happily, if that happiness is founded upon oblivion? Massacres obliterate millions of people, but so do oblivion. And it seems that when we have no trouble forgetting the dead, we have no trouble forgetting the living either (why ruin a life over Patti who is already dead when living?). The politics of memory and oblivion may be the only politics. Who is living and who is the dead?
- GR does not demand that we remember to find the cause of the disaster, but the fact of the disaster - the fact that we all will die.
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