Christmas morning music

Merry Christmas to all well-intentioned readers of the blog.

A finely-made semi-dramatized documentary about M.R. James

German Christmas 1942

[The thoughts below were first published in 2023. I think they still stand up well]

Stray thoughts

You often hear or see the statement “The Third Reich was terrible because [whatever].” Often cited is euthanasia of the terribly mentally or even physically disabled etc. Few consider that that or similar happened also in the USA, UK etc in the 1930s, though not often admitted to.

When people today say that they are, say, Roman Catholic, do other people say “so you support the Inquisition?!” or “so you support the torture and genocide of the Cathars?!” No…yet the same or similar questioners might say to someone who is social-national politically, “so you support euthanasia of the badly-disabled?!” or “you support gassing Jews?!” (leaving aside the doubtful proposition about whether the fabled “gas chambers” even existed). They might as well demand an answer to the question “so you want to invade Poland?!“.

Point made, I think.

I happened to see the above when looking at old blog posts recently hit from some country or other; words I published nearly 3 years ago.