How to tell a story

How to tell a story

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Applause: Auschwitz

If you have the stomach for it, this 6-part BBC documentary establishes beyond belief the human capacity for calculated depravity. Don't get smug. Our genocide against American Indians, slave trade with its lynchings, and contemporary torturing of terrorism suspects are no models of humanism. Depravity is an equal opportunity employer. Just don't watch this one on a full stomach. These disciples of Goethe and Wagner may convince you that civilization is an asylum.