Thinking more about that previous post titled Memory, Identity and Voiding, it occurs to me that these atrocities -- Hiroshima, concentration camps, etc. -- are remembered not because they say anything true, but because they show what is false. Rather, one could say that the only truth they contain is to eliminate certain truth possibilities by showing a crack in reality that denies them.
I think that in the end there is a fear behind such remembering -- the fear that there is no reality, only these cracks, and that all we posit, all we hold to be true, is merely a bubble poised precariously on such a fault line that can show, or reveal itself, at any moment.
This is pagan, perhaps.
My wife noticed, as we were watching the animated movie Anastasia (which is a legend about the survival of the youngest Romanov child from the Communist slaughtering, and features Rasputin as the main villain, who has made a pact with demonic forces to destroy the whole family), that people today find it easy to believe in the reality of evil, but not God.
The Void strikes again. It is gathering strength -- or is it ready to burst?
I'm not sure what a fictional account of Anastasia's life reveals. The Romanovs' bodies, including that of Anastasia, have been found in recent years and have been confirmed by DNA sampling. There is, was, and will continue to be evil around us, but what is your point? We have an infinitely greater Force available to destroy evil in the end.
Posted by: joe | 01/08/2011 at 05:51 AM