It’s meant to de-humanize. Once people are turned into numbers all bets are off.
I keep coming back to this from Jacob Bronowski about the holocaust:
There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that deliberate deafness to suffering, has become the monster in the…
It’s meant to de-humanize. Once people are turned into numbers all bets are off.
I keep coming back to this from Jacob Bronowski about the holocaust:
There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that deliberate deafness to suffering, has become the monster in the war machine. The other is the betrayal of the human spirit: the assertion of dogma that closes the mind, and turns a nation, a civilization, into a regiment of ghosts--obedient ghosts or tortured ghosts.
It’s meant to de-humanize. Once people are turned into numbers all bets are off.
I keep coming back to this from Jacob Bronowski about the holocaust:
There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that deliberate deafness to suffering, has become the monster in the war machine. The other is the betrayal of the human spirit: the assertion of dogma that closes the mind, and turns a nation, a civilization, into a regiment of ghosts--obedient ghosts or tortured ghosts.
As the song goes, when will we ever learn?