My PhilosophyIn order for us to learn from the past, we need to feel connected on a human level to those who came before us. We need to see them as complex beings with fears, dreams, and personalities- not merely the subjects of great events. How did it feel to be an eighteen year-old in the trenches of world war 1, or a father of five in the Irish potato famine? What went through a little girl's mind seeing her home destroyed in the Hiroshima bombing? Without that basic human connection and an attempt at sympathy, the past is both uninteresting and irrelevant.
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Story of the Week
Jacques Rossi was a prisoner in a Soviet Gulag for 19 years from 1936-1955. Upon his release, he drew artworks about the various aspects of his brutal experience. View these drawings and other insights on Gulag life here. |