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Coincidence...

So I got home tonight with no big plans, at work thinking too much all day, it was time to kick back for a movie. I had recorded two on the DVR, there was Driving Miss Daisy and The Grey Zone, I might have seen Driving Miss Daisy, maybe not. I remember hearing that it’s pretty good. I ended up watching The Gray Zone.

WWI Germany, Conentration camps, genocide, human nature,… I’ve done my share of reading and thinking and trying to reconcile with my reality. The Holocaust has intrigued me (no, not like that) in where it has drivern people, what it made people do to people, how it desensitized people, dehumanized people, how it made walking dead.

I watched the movie. It wasn’t super well done but it told a great story revolving around sacrificing yourself so that others may not be as efficiently exterminated. What a trade-off to be confronted with. F.

Two hours later I sit at my computer, put on some Jack Johnson (J.O.A.T.) and was curious what J.O.A.T was/meant so looked Jack up on Wikipedia… When on Wikipedia I often try to hit the Random Article link to see where it might take me.

I click.

I land on Jean Amery - haunting how appropriate my random stumbling was. Do I believe in fate, do I not? Coincidence or Greater Plan? It was speechless for a spell. Jean was an Auschwitz survivor, one of his books set in the same camp as the movie I just watched.

Says he wrote At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities: His meditation on coping with being pushed to the edge of sanity/morality/life while in captivity. I happened upon it so… randomly,… so perfectly,… I’m ordering it right now.

In the process of looking up the book I found this Open Courseware class at MIT, Violence, Human Rights, and Justice, I loved my class like tthat in college. I might be looking deeper into the reading list from that MIT course.

Anyway, Off to bed, I’m getting sleepy sleepy.

Posted by volker at March 8, 2006 01:06 AM