In response to an article: Marian Turski, Holocaust survivor who warned of the danger of indifference, dies at 98 -- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/marian-turski-holocaust-survivor-who-warned-of-the-danger-of-indifference-dies-at-98/ar-AA1zjtqa?ocid=TobArticle
I shared the hyperlink and posted the following
Mr Turski's admonishment's about indifference is one that should resonate today. I don't know anything beyond this article, about Mr Turski. His passing should be noted for being a Holocaust survivor and most recently for being alive during the rise of Trump, MAGA and misinformation.
Recently, CNN posted a piece about various opinion pieces on the Trump supporting cable TV outlets bemoaning what they see as a insulting by Tom Hanks during SNL 50th anniv show when the opinion shows on the left did the same thing when Trump made comments about Puerto Rico.
While I have not observed as much history as Mr Turski - not yet anyway, I have paid a larger portion of one's increasingly divided attention to current events. "Current events" normalize, compress and reduce into memories and history. We know what Mr Turski's generation experienced first hand in the run up to WWII.
My generation can have an understanding of that period of history and the language. While we can't know what the language of Maga and Trump will eventually turn out, it can be argued there are stark and strong parallels between our current period and pre-WWII.
I don't have solutions. I do have ideas. I do know that a large set of folks I know first hand today are troubled by events, words and meanings and those troubles are not being processed. This can be said not because current events are being discussed - but because there is a silence about how to resolve the tensions and greater slivers of attention are being paid to less historical significant events.
This can be said because if these troubles and concerns on both sides of the political spectrum were indeed being resolved - the political tensions would not be as elevated as the are currently.
We needs ideas to be shared and given increased slivers of time and attention and built on to find a state of social being move forward for all.
2001 did not show us a Monolith on the moon, it taught us that if you see something say something. We need brainstorming and troubleshooting of social and political issues.
It should be noted it took 10+ years between the Declaration of Independence and the ratification of our current Constitution which has grown and changed for 250 years. There was even a different form of governance and a different First President in that interim.
I am committed to not be indifferent. It is a first step - let me end with a lighter note - and accept the journey, a trek, a yellow brick road or following Old Man Winter the "claymation guy put one foot in front of the other" - click to see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4fc74snmK8
It really can be that simple - make it an "atomic habit". Commit to NOT being indifferent and let's build together - Phila is proof that it can happen whether it be 1776 with independence or 2025 and a Superbowl.
Mr Turski - I heard you.
