Our Time Has Come.

For all the constant winging and moaning that i myself have endured and projected unto others, this summer has really taught me a lot. Not an epiphany as such just a sudden cloud has decided to move on, which i am more than appreciative of.

Firstly i have met some amazing new like-minded people. The ones that are just not interested in mindless backstabbing and antagonizing.

But the thing that really has opened my eyes is my course in Human Rights. Im not interested in making political statements on Trafalger Square in an attempt to get our deaf government to turn up their hearing aid. Im more interested in Genocide and the concept behind it. I opted to study the Holocaust in my first semester of my second year and already a week in im loving it.

As a result and trying to portray myself as an avid student, i visited the Imperial War Museum yesterday to visit the Holocaust exhibition. It was increadible. So tactile and informative. Everywhere you looked there was cases to view, videos to watch and models to look at. It was heart-wrenching and i defy anyone to come out of their without feeling a little sad but more educated.

The cases full of shoes collected from Auschwitz camp of the prisoners is scary and the video showing real mentally ill people/skeletons being loaded into a gas chamber is disgusting. But in a good way. It means you cant dissasociate yourself from such a terrible atrocity that happened.

People today think its ok to not know the facts. The facts like, Hitler wasnt the true mastermind ego maniac behind it all. It was actually those below him like Himmler who oversaw everything. He was the real homicidal maniac. Or Eichmann, the guy who implemented and constructed the Final Solution. Mengele (The Angel of Auschwitz) who experimented on everyone in the camps in the hope of constructing a true Aryan race and weeding out genetic faults.

Someone who lived through it once said that to even write and read about the Holocaust is a crime itself as it defiles the true nature of what happened. That is becomes a freak show and something to be gauped at. In respect, i say bollocks to that.
I think it is our duty as humans to learn and understand it. To read every side of the atrocity, from Mein Kamph to the Nazi Hunter, to books on the SS and first hand accounts from liberated camp suvivors.

I am infuriated by the idea that the government wants to take the manditory study of the Holocaust off the school education system and i find it a disgusting concept. Dont stick kids infront of Schindlers list for 2 hours. Sit them down and show kids of about 12-13 upwards what we as humans are fucking capable of. Make them realise that it is not an acceptable thing to do and just because it happened 60 odd years ago, does not mean we can distance ourselevs from it and claim that we no longer have to think about it. Thats a quick path to it happening again on a bigger scale!!!!

If you see this exhibition, you will be thinking of it for days and you will soon put everything in your life thats easy to be caught up in, into perspective.

REALITY IS OUR PERCEPTION.