From 9e3c0c32db4bc1cc5acc546ab0203633ce8318b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tony Chen Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 21:50:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?create=20post=20re.=20K=C3=BCbler-Ross?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- _posts/2022-06-02-overcast.md | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/2022-06-02-overcast.md 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?