Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Ted Grant asked: > >> 3/ What enlightment do you have after being engaged in the works at the > >> "killing fields?" How do you feel about the future of mankind? > > Most of us haven't been there. Can you, who have, tell us whether >it really matters? Simply knowing about all these 20th-century >episodes (Turkey, Germany, Rwanda, Cambodia, etc) at a distance -- >with the aid of photographs, of course! -- is enough to give up any >thoughts of optimism, enlightenment, or progress. (Just where one winds >up on a scale of pessimism is probably a matter of personal taste.) > I have been there. I think it matters. The little temple that has been constructed on the killing fields, filled with skulls and other human debris, is important. It makes people think about how not to do things. Gerard Captijn.