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| AndyD | Jan 14 2016, 07:29 AM Post #1 |
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Tasmanian prize winning author, he gave a fascinating interview centred around his book The Narrow Road to the Deep North, which is well worth a listen if you are able: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tq9r6 To precis a part: We all contain infinite possibilities for good and evil and beauty and ugliness within us. Evil in the case of Japan or Nazi Germany didn't begin with the first bullet, the first beatings or the first beheadings. It begins decades before when politicians, intellectual spiritual leaders, writers, put abroad the ideas of moral superiority to justify behaviour, that some people are less than people. And that's poison in the ears of any society and that leads to the terrible evil later on. Societies can step back from it but they have to choose; these are the first pebbles thrown that can quickly become a mudslide of horror and that's where the paths opened up for the railways to Auschwitz, the Burma death railway and so on. And we've seen this in recent years in our own societies, in the language politicians have used about refugees, and it's at that time you have to call this for the evil it really is. It is shocking to realise that the everyday people to whom there had been such hatred towards for decades after the war against Germany & Japan, had been no different to how we had been. I come from a place in this world and you another, and we all behave a little bit differently, but in truth our hearts rise and fall, we're souls the same underneath. Edited by AndyD, Jan 14 2016, 07:29 AM.
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