Oh my God! Look! Books! They’re everywhere!
Oh, wow, cool. Let’s take some selfies!
Yeah, right?
Pose with it, like you’re reading.
Like I’m what?
Pretend to read it!
How do I do that?
It’s kind of like scrolling.
Huh. Okay. Uh…
Forget it. Let’s get a coffee.
Yeah, Cool.
I had been alone for much of the day, not knowing where everyone had gone. The tide was coming up, the clouds descending.
I climbed the sand bank and went along a row of luxurious homes, peeking beneath the cement pilings to what looked like a little sandy basement piled with boxes and toys. There was no sign, no barricade or lock, just a plastic toy train, which I moved out of the way.
A large group of children followed me. I knew I shouldn’t have let them in and confessed my trespass to the family upstairs who I somehow knew. They expressed their anger with tight faces and phrases uttered under their breath. They forgave me and explained that this was a place of silence, of memorials and things locked away.
It was a moment of revelation for all, letting these things breathe and talk to one another again and express the sadness for our torn lives.
The message of the final chapter of Douglas Kelley’s 22 Cells in Nuremberg is clear: The Nazi leaders were not spectacular types, not personalities such as appear only once in a century. They simply had three unremarkable characteristics: overwhelming ambition, low ethical standards and a nationalism which justified anything in the name of their country.
Hitler was elected by democratic methods in a democratic system and the democratic forces failed to prevent his election because of a fundamental apathy and lack of interest.
Kelly goes on to state the four principles of preventing these people from staying in power: a. Vote b. Ensure that every individual citizen is allowed to vote c. Refuse to vote for anyone who uses race as a platform d. Reform the education system to teach students to think.
How crazy would that be to have an engaged populous interested in forwarding a thoughtful set of policies? Yeah, well, dare to dream. The good news is that the majority are now aware of what Trump is and will get rid of him and his cronies soon. Right?
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