Why do we remember?

Elmer 2021-12-24 08:02:10

British historian Ian Kershaw said, “The road to Oudtswissin is opened by hatred, and the road is paved by indifference.” When
the protagonist was 19 years old, he shot into the darkness and asked his companions: Should I pray? Companion said: Pray while shooting!
The shadow of the war is still in his heart. The blood of the fathers in Auschwitz hasn't dried yet, and the children have jumped into the tank to witness another massacre.
Of course, historians and various experts can come up with historical dilemmas for us to discuss: back then, think about it! What situation is Israel in? If it wasn't for Sharon's troops to blaze a trail of blood, wouldn't it be too early to perish the country?
Today, why does Hamas throw missiles?
But no amount of paradoxes can erase the bloody facts.
Why do people kill?
Under a reasonable psychological mechanism, crime is taken for granted. The soldier motioned that the old man wouldn't kneel to me. I shot him in the knees. If he refused to accept it, I jumped his head. What an understatement! How reasonable it should be.
When shooting, the opponent cannot be imagined as an adult, but only as an active object. Therefore, one of the interviewers said: There is a soldier whose psychological protection mechanism makes him seem to be wearing a pair of three-dimensional glasses, and he is just standing in it and watching a blockbuster war movie. But he woke up suddenly, not because he saw a lot of dead people, but because he saw the horses, the horses struggling with the dead, which made him unable to bear... Another soldier’s twenty-year nightmare, he dreamed about it. Not a Palestinian, but twenty-six dogs.
Why are people indifferent?
Psychological mechanism, out of fear. If you are not indifferent, you cannot shoot. If you are not indifferent, you will have a psychological breakdown even if you live.
Is memory reliable?
People process memories time and time again, decorate them with rationality, and then wash and forget them with the water of time.
So, are there really good people?
A 19-year-old soldier, is he a symbol of evil? He was even ignorant, terribly ignorant, he was neither hated nor even indifferent. Then he forgot.
Seeing the soldiers shooting in the dancing madness
, there is a sense of beauty. The corpses and crying women in the last fifty seconds are the end of beauty.
Auschwitz, Kundera said, a few more years will be like a joke. What about the Cultural Revolution? What about the countless massacres that have occurred in Africa? What is light and what is heavy?
How do people face the past? Facing collective crime?
Finally, why do we remember?
Xu Ben's latest book "What Reasons Are People Memorizing".
He said: Regarding the common disasters of mankind, what memory research is most concerned with is not what we are willing to remember, but what we should remember because of our moral responsibility. What we should remember are those evil events that directly destroy the common humanity.

Well said, worthy of applause... But what about the research? Are there still few samples in the specimen room? The human subconscious wants to forget it, and it floats like a feather. It was like new soil covering the hard rock. A person like a dog. Repeated slaughter.
Will people get better?

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Extended Reading

Waltz with Bashir quotes

  • Anonymous soldier: What to do? What to do? Why don't you tell us what to do?

    Ari Folman: Shoot!

    Anonymous soldier: On who?

    Ari Folman: How should I know on who? Just shoot!

    Anonymous soldier: Isn't it better to pray?

    Ari Folman: Pray and shoot!

  • [from trailer]

    Ari Folman: After the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, I lost my memory. Now in order to remember, I am looking for those who can never forget.