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> no one in the West is likely ever going to see a Nazi swastika and see a manji first You're assuming that anti-Holocaust people are going to outlast pro-Holo
by Alex3917 9y ago
> no one in the West is likely ever going to see a Nazi swastika and see a manji first
You're assuming that anti-Holocaust people are going to outlast pro-Holocaust people, but based on history this seems like a questionable assumption. E.g. it took less than 50 years for LoTR to go from an anti-war parable inspired by the horrors of WW1, to being an action movie glorifying indiscriminate killing. Similarly, compare the photos of people standing in front of Auschwitz with the photos that come up in GIS of people standing in front of the Colosseum:
https://www.123rf.com/photo_36629433_happy-mother-and-baby-girl-rejoicing-in-front-of-colosseum-in-rome-italy.html https://www.123rf.com/photo_36629433_happy-mother-and-baby-g...
- krapp 9y agoTolkein said the Lord of the Rings wasn't an anti-war parable or allegory, although that's a valid interpretation, it's wasn't the author's intent. And the books had plenty of war and indiscriminate killing in them, being based as they were on Germanic and European mythologies which considered war a glorious and noble act. Maybe in a thousand years Westerners will forget about Nazism and the swastika, but it doesn't necessarily follow that they will replace that knowledge with the Buddhist interpretation of the same symbol. Sure, stranger things have happened, it's not impossible, but it seems incredibly unlikely. It's certainly not going to happen within my lifetime or yours.