Switching Gears
I’m currently reading a couple of books on the Khmer genocide. One is the textbook put out by the Yale Khmer Genocide Project. It’s research.
Reading these books is difficult but necessary. I remember visiting the United States Holocaust Museum on a trip to DC. It was a difficult but necessary thing, a counterpoint to visiting capitol monuments and the Smithsonian. However, I think a nice middle ground between them was the impassioned speech given by a U.S. Park Ranger at Ford’s Theater on Lincoln’s assassination.
Knowledge is a hard thing to come to terms with. It’s kind of nice to go about your day not knowing things, eating happy meals and watching wrasslin’. It’s painful to get connected to history, then get disconnected from it again, knowing that in comparison you have it really good.
I’m going to finish up this reading this weekend. Gotta get to work, stop taking in and start outputting again.
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Year Zero
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If you ever want a personal autobiographical account of the Khmer genocide told through the perspective of a twelve-year-old girl (which I bought in Cambodia for roughly 3 US dollars), I can lend that to you. Hope your researching is going well!
That would be most excellent. Thank you!!