Opus 2026-401: Cultural Dementia

25 years ago the phrase we kept hearing was, “Never forget”.  It seems that most of us have done so.  There are acts of violence that stand out in history.  Some of them were just cultural norms.  If you look at the battles going back-and-forth between the Muslims and the Christians during the Crusade era, you see what look like atrocities to us but to the people of that day it was just business as usual.  Some are just the conflict of war and its results.

25 years ago was a whole different genre of atrocity.  When a carefully planed attack my Muslims destroyed the lives of thousands of Americans and billions of dollars worth of property with no warning and no real cause, you better remember if this is a part of the culture you’re going up against.

The events of October 7 would be in the same category.  Of course, the ones who did the attacking out of nowhere would claim that they had justified cause.  That’s part of what we need to remember.  There are people in the world who confuse their own personal opinion with absolute truth.  They are all around us, and for the most part, we managed to squeeze by them or avoid them.  September 11 and October 7 should remind us that there are people who are better at dodgeball than we are.

Are there other events that we need to remember for our own survival sake?  I would suggest the Jewish holocaust as one and following close behind it would be the Armenian holocaust. And listening to us and historian recently, it would seem that there are many other similar holocaust that went on in the world of Islam.  I would venture a guess we could find them in other parts of the world too.  The killing in the Communist world should be engraved on our eyelids from starving the Ukranian peasants to Cambodia come to mind. 

We need to remember that we were attacked but even more we need to remember that there are evil people in the world who would love to attack us again and that we need to be on our guard.

Avoid cultural dementia, never forget.

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