diff --git a/_posts/2022-06-02-overcast.md b/_posts/2022-06-02-overcast.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1ab7636 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2022-06-02-overcast.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +title: "I've just read about war, murder and Hitler" +layout: post +--- + +I have just read Kuo Pao Kun's "Keynote Address at the Southeast Asian +Theatre Seminar on War". (In Pages 184 to 187, The Complete Works of Kuo +Pao Kun, Volume 7: Papers and Speeches). + +He wants to know why people, +numbering in the millions, can desire the mass murder of other people. +He cannot understand why educated people, members of the intelligentsia, +in Japan, Germany and China - and elsewhere - can indulge in this +butchering of human beings. + +Kuo Pao Kun is not a psychiatrist, so he +doesn't have the answer. But Elisabeth Kübler-Ross is one, and she has +the answer to Kuo Pao Kun's question. + +Kübler-Ross calls it the inner +Hitler: inside each person, there is the potential to become a Hitler, +as well as the potential to become a Mother Teresa. + +A girl in Poland - +who has lost her family to murder, during the Holocaust - once asked +her: "don't you think that there is a Hitler inside all of us?" +(source: Kübler-Ross's book, "The tunnel and the light") + +Kübler-Ross gently asks the reader: have you the courage to recognise the Hitler in yourself?