Looking Away
When confronted by human suffering we almost invariably look away; this is one of the central truths Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu teaches us. And when it comes to a subject of especially noteworthy horror we almost inevitably say: “We didn’t know” when in reality we mean: “we didn’t care”.
The excellent film, The Zone of Interest, which was awarded an Oscar, goes a long way to explaining Auschwitz in a way other films, such as Schindler’s List, fail to do. Auschwitz wasn’t possible, as the film points out, without the act of “looking away”; horror lies at our doorstep yet we avert our gaze.
At the Oscars the director, Jonathan Glazer, said:
“All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present — not to say, ‘Look what they did then,’ rather, ‘Look what we do now.’ Our film shows where dehumanization leads, at its worst. It shaped all of our past and present. Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation, which has led to conflict for so many innocent people. Whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims of this dehumanization, how do we resist? [Applause.] Aleksandra Bystroń-Kołodziejczyk, the girl who glows in the film, as she did in life, chose to. I dedicate this to her memory and her resistance.”[1]
“Bystroń-Kołodziejczyk was the inspiration for the night-vision scenes in Zone which show a young girl secretly leaving food for prisoners in Auschwitz. Glazer, who met Bystroń-Kołodziejczyk before her death in 2016, carefully modeled the film’s character on her, going as far as to use her actual bicycle and dress for the actress on screen. Commenting on her scenes, which were shot using a night vision camera, Glazer said, ‘[She] glows in the film as she did in life. I dedicate this to her memory and her resistance.’”[2]
We, by which I mean the privileged Westerners who go about our business without looking too closely at what goes on either abroad or in the country we happen to live in, have long looked away, whether it be at the growing inequality and injustice at home or abroad or at the egregious acts of horror worthy of the Nazis.
Many prefer to swallow the mantra promoted by odious publications such as The Economist, which argue that “capitalism” has made the world a happier place and “untrammelled capitalism” makes the world the happiest of all possible worlds. There was a time when I actually, to my shame, believed this nonsense. I rationalized just in the exact same way I rationalized every injustice or simply selectively forgot.
Perhaps more insidious still is the arrogant assumption of moral superiority many Westerners cling to; nothing is more bogus, shameful or abhorrent than this.
If one studies the mechanisms by which the West attained its power, such as drugs, slavery, brutal conquest or downright genocide one begins to regard all those who cling to these notions of moral superiority as not a little insane. Worse still is the realization that NONE of these practices have ended. The banks are kept afloat by drug money, either individuals or entire countries (especially in Africa) are kept in (often debt) slavery and the brutal conquest and genocide in Gaza is simply the rule and not the exception. Afghanistan and Iraq were brutally conquered in living memory and millions died as a consequence of Western aggression. That the masses accepted the lie of 9/11 without too much debate is simply a further instance of “looking away”.
And further back one can turn to the brutal wars to reduce the population of El Salvador (after the motto: if you can’t reduce your own population, we shall do so), Cambodia (which remains the template for what is happening in the world now) or Vietnam (where some six million Vietnamese were exterminated in brutal fashion). That all these abominations have been “rationalized” should hardly surprise. Or, and this example is extremely pertinent for today, the murder of roughly 100m Africans by the UN using “vaccines” (the so-called AIDS crisis). The main reason I knew what the result of the “vaccines” would be was because I was acutely aware of the history.
Thankfully, not everyone is looking away. Iurie Roșca wrote in January:
“The enemies of humanity operate through international organizations perceived as neutral and beneficial to states and peoples, such as the UN, WHO, IMF, World Bank, Bank for International Settlements (BIS), WTO, WHO, GAVI, UNESCO, UNICEF, EU, NATO, etc. And as accomplices of this enormous “open conspiracy” appear the governments of the world’s states that have become the puppets of these occult forces: political régimes that contribute to the genocide of the peoples they govern.”
“The overwhelming influence, on a world and national scale, of that real power archipelago is disseminated and exercised through a myriad of secret or semi-secret societies such as Freemasonry, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), the Tavistock Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Club of Rome, the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, the World Economic Forum, etc.”…
“UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development with its 17 goals is imposed upon every nation and expresses the reality of global governance: an agenda which pushes the plan of mass extermination and ultimate subjugation, without resistance being put up by any country. Moreover, as long as no country in the world announces its desire to leave this umbrella organization of shadow power (the UN), the World Government will function just as unabatedly without even formalizing its existence.”[3]
Archbishop Viganò opined:
“What appears today in all its evidence is the subversive plan of a global coup d’état, aimed at the decimation of the world population and the enslavement of the survivors. The pressure for the approval of the WHO Pandemic Treaty and for the health passport – accompanied by the activation of the digital wallet – demonstrate that the authors of this coup have no intention of giving up their criminal intentions and will not do so unless they are faced with firm and determined opposition from the population and those few of its representatives who are not sold out to the World Economic Forum, by those who courageously do not fail in their duties.”
“We have seen the false Bergoglian church totally subservient to the genetic treatment agenda, a treatment that was produced using aborted fetuses. We have seen doctors and paramedics killing frail and elderly people in intensive care through the use of anesthesia. We have seen rulers, magistrates, and police forces unleash an unprecedented criminalization of those who did not allow themselves to be “marked.” We know who is behind these people, who pays them, and who blackmails them: their names are well known. These murderers will soon find themselves answering for their crimes, if not before the tribunal of the world, then certainly before God, whom they hate and whom they would like to replace, in a mad delirium of omnipotence that is an inexorable prelude to their eternal defeat. The children of darkness, the conspirators of the World Economic Forum, and the globalist cabal want to establish the kingdom of the Antichrist on earth, as an obscene counterfeit of the Kingdom of Christ Our Lord.”
“Look at their work: only lies, deception, horror, sin, vice, violence, and monstrosity. And always for a price, because everything they do is an object of exchange, of commerce: you pay to have children, you pay to kill them, you pay to sell their organs, you pay to abuse them, you pay to impose lethal treatments, you pay to live and to die, you pay for the lies of the media and the obscenities of the internet, you pay for the simulation of love and friendship, you pay for the chimera of a digital eternity. You also pay to end up in hell, to damn your soul. While with the things of God, everything is free – it is the fruit of charity, generosity, and magnificence.”
“You are rightly denouncing the health holocaust: with this term you highlight on the one hand the extent of the crime committed by the servants of the WHO, and on the other the desire to ‘sacrifice’ millions of victims to the globalist Moloch. Do not lose sight of this fundamental element: the extermination – in ways not dissimilar to those that the totalitarian regimes of the last century caused – shows us the ritual aspect of the Great Reset and reveals the culture of death embraced by those who promote it. The death of babies in the mother’s womb; the death of sick and elderly people in hospitals; the death of young people torn from life by drugs; the death of the family in the name of perversions and betrayals; the death of beauty, knowledge, and science. It is a death that affects not only the body, but also the soul, killing the flame of hope within it. And it is significant that those who deny the existence of an otherworldly hell seem to want to do everything to recreate it on this earth, as if to take revenge on us for the fate that inexorably awaits these psychopathic murderers.”[4]
[1] https://www.vulture.com/article/oscars-2024-jonathan-glazer-speech-full-transcript.html
[2] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-zone-of-interest-real-life-polish-nazi-fighter-1235852362/
[3] https://arcaluinoe.info/en/blog/2024-01-14-466g3tft/?fbclid=IwAR1N540EH1x7u4dzFbpRhbR5FpeHe-wO6C2K--ulzmTNUUOpzqnYj8fTvfw
[4] https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/archbishop-vigano-the-globalist-cabal-want-to-establish-the-kingdom-of-the-antichrist-on-earth/?utm_source=popular
Wow, Michael. Well done. Humanity is at the edge of darkness, looking into the abyss. Will we notice in time?