Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/04
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At 09:55 -0500 04/01/99, B. D. Colen wrote:
[ . . . ]
Aren't there some "collectibles" that, given their provenance, shouldn't be
collected other than in Museums. Or, are their certain items that we should
neither invest in nor profit from?
[ . . . ]
Mr Colen,
Just how deep do people like you have to furrow
in murky and equivocal self-justification
by so-called "genetic" association,
pretending an inner calling to the valiant and righteous
task of denegating others of the pleasures of their hobby
and wallowing in pointless and irrelevant
"genetic" victimization that have neither
the least thing to do with YOU, personally,
nor A-N-Y of the good people in this group ?
Perhaps are YOUR ATTITUDES,
given their provenance,
not even worth a square foot of Museum space !
Not to deny History, just to note you are pretending
to police other good willed people whose worldview
has grown to embrace so much more
than the truly painful life experience
of, perhaps, your forefathers and THEIRS !
Would you care to ponder the eventuality
of one historical dimension that recalls
the blood, sweat and tears, most likely,
of too many good people drawn in a maelstrom
few could eschew on a day to day basis
"back then", unless willing to risk getting slugged.
If you don't appreciate my reaction,
please note you were invading my privacy
and personal space with a private agenda
totally alien to the pursuits of our bona fide group:
photo excellence.
If you wish to so aggressively promote such discourse
in MY e-mail, please be warned you are trespassing.
I am a model of patience, a model of tolerance,
others say : please examine your ultimate purposes
when you regurgitate such venom.
You might be the one person who suffers most
from such and might destroy pathways to friendships
that could do much to heal the unspeakable pain
that is NOT yours, by any standard,
perhaps even healing your prejudice.
It is not impossible that the person enquiring
about the relative value of this vintage camera
be the son of a man who may have carried
your own father, or a "genetic" kind, to safety.
War is ugly, even today, with as many Iraqi children
dead in less than ten years of international boycott
than in the sorrowful nazi death camps, now about
one million and counting...
Have you heard of the goulag ?
Have you not heard of the killing fields ?
Have you the least notion of the actual numbers
of starving people on account of warlords, today ?
Have you the very least notion of the numbers
of children maimed by live antipersonel mines, TODAY ?
It's so obscene, the news don't talk about it !
People simply would not be able to deal with Reality
as it IS : our mutual loss.
So, we look fifty years back, so easy,
just for the comfort of it !
Stigma is a most painful experience, Sir.
My suggestion is you pursue such diatribe
with A-N-Y 'live' German person, today, this year,
and weigh for yourself just how far you then
would be willing to go in the way of finger pointing
and, not impossible, self-righteousness.
You owe yourself a minute of silence.
Respectfully,
Andre Jean Quintal
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