• Hoimo@ani.social
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    11 hours ago

    You’d think humans don’t need the example of the holocaust to know not to do a holocaust.

    Reminds me of Yukio Mishima’s novel Beautiful Star, written in the early Cold War (1962), where the main character bemoans that humans just did a full World War and now, when faced with the horror of nuclear destruction, don’t seem to have learned anything from years of traditional destruction and are ready to do it all over again. “If they could just imagine they’d done it already and say ‘never again’!”