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| Subject: | Re: Human equation |  |
| Date: | Aug 2, 2006 |
| From: | John Anderson | |
Mike and All,
The whole controversy over the recent gallery posting of Nazi's executing Jewish civilians reminds me of a quote from Joseph Stalin, "One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic." Some have suggested that older or more remote acts of genocide don't stimulate as much controversy because they are more abstract subjects. Older, more remote or abstract (even recent) events are the statistics of that quote. It would be hard to build as thought provoking of a diorama of a concentration camp as Mr. Park has done with the more isolated, personal (meaning human) piece of work that he created. I think the humanity of that isolated portrayal evoked more intense feelings than reading about all of the casualties of the holocost simply because it pictured a brutal act perpetrated by individuals against other individuals. And those individuals represented the larger groups of which they were members. I guess you could say that it is much more personal level of message, rather than a larger statistical level of message and one that hits home much harder.
I am glad to see that the negative comments have not cowed the website owner into removing it. In this era of political correctness, real thought provoking debate can get suppressed.
Take care,
John Anderson |
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