memory cannot protect itself from confabulations motivated by the exigencies of the present. historical memory especially. 1/

Extraordinary, by #MashaGessen https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust

that nothing is more ordinary than collective murder, events "we" were the victims of, events we have perpetrated and perpetrate, for any large enough we that survives, is too inconvenient for us to recognize. 2/

rather than arguing about this or that extermination, we'd be better off understanding and creating conditions under which we exterminate less. /fin