To Forget Is To Kill Twice. Pier Marton

by Pier Marton | Mar 9, 2012 | Antisemitism, Art, Death, Ego, France, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Juif, Magyar, Photo, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Time, Wars, Women | 1 comment

Pier Marton on the Resistance & the Shoah

Photo © Kristi Foster

“My parents’ generation will slowly disappear,” says Marton, “but the energy that created the Holocaust is still there. To forget is to kill twice.” Pier Marton in Savannah Morning News.

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Dan Levin on March 9, 2012 at 9:27 am

Pier…Totally and Deep and Beautiful–
“the boundary between the living and the dead is small”…That is so profoundly true…So is, “We are here to be disturbed…we need to be”…Those are the deepest insights…And profoundly healing ones to anyone who suffers from confronting the painful truth…
Thank you my friend!
Dan

News & Olds

BREAK THE SURFACE
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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus