The denial of death manifested as oppression of the "other", in
this case the "other" are those persecuted and destroyed during
the Holocaust. I return to my ealier posting, "root of roots"
where I mentioned my own sense that our individual and cultural
death orthodoxy of repression and denial is an ancient and major
source a psycho- and sociopathic behaviors of genocide, ecocide,
and the bewildering array of less massive assaults upon the
reality of our nature. The "norm" of repression snuffs the
delicate human capacity for compassion, empathy, spirituality,
awe and wonder; anesthetizing those aspects of us allows
destructive processes of projection to ride through the
generations creating trails of tears, holocausts, extinction of
species, patriarchy...on and on. Nothing really new about all
this; it just not talked about a lot.
Grayhare
