We kill them and we kill one another....

Just watched the 9th part of BoB.

I couldn't stop crying. It was... Nothing new. I have seen lots of movies about WWII and as a history freak, I do know what happened in the camps. Still... It was heart-wrenching and sickening. Real somehow. Not overly sentimental like some movies that are banal in their aim to get the last feeling of horror and pity out of you.

So I couldn't stop crying.

Am still amazed of how they managed to execute their 'Final Solution'. They usually just talk about Auschwitz-Birkenau, but there were smaller camps all around the place. People say they did not know. Bull. They had to. They just didn't want to know, didn't want to see.

What a strange feeling I'm experiencing here. Not just sadness and horror, but rage as well. Not towards Germans, especially not against contemporary ones (waves at all the idiot slashers in there! :P). Towards humans in general. I am amazed that we have survived as a race.

All the excuses we use to kill others seem to be just that. Excuses. Wars and ethnic cleansings and every single hate crime. What the hell is driving us on anyway? We call ourselves the 'crown of creation' and yet we haven't evolved beyond the basic 'you look different, me kills you' phase. It doesn't limit to Germans or other Europeans. Or Arabs or Asians or Africans. We're all of the same species here, and unfortunately, killing others just because they are different is something every race of this miserable excuse of a 'master species' share.

Gods. I actually feel both better and worse after the rant.

Anyhow... Back to BoB. I do have one complaint about this episode. They mentioned the camps, and that there were Gypsies, Jews, Polish and other ethnic groups held there.

Are we missing something?

I do understand that they would not say it in the program. Talking about gays wasn't probably possible for people those days. But in the small text that flashed on the screen... I would have appreciated it. People close to the concentration camps pretended they didn't exist. Now it feels like those who are bringing these crimes against humanity into public awareness again want to pretend homosexuals weren't there. Or maybe that they didn't exist.

Mr. Spielberg. I do understand how it feels to know your people were murdered by racial supremacists. I know. But bringing only a part -- even though a huge part -- of these crimes into light is not enough.

Gah. End of rant.

Will go and watch the final episode now.

The LOTR science exhiition

Gah! I guess I went to London too early. Stupid stupid stupid! I really want to see this: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk !!!

Anyone want to go to London for a couple of days to see the exhibition and maybe do some book shopping or something? Anyone??

jumps around, frothing at the mouth

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Gah!

Seems to me that my days off just fly by. Will probably be exhausted tomorrow when I have to go to work.

Stupid idiots kept calling me. Someone I didn't even know, Maria and dlasta, who's the least idiotic, since she actually had something to tell me. I don't mind answering the phone, but I'd really like to SLEEP sometimes. So was grouchy and annoyed when the alarm went off.

Had to eat the breakfast quickly so I wouldn't be all full at the gym and then puke.

Yes. Gym day again. I left all energized, heading towards Itis. Was supposed to meet Maria there, but she was late. Oh well. I can exercise alone. Went through the hour of aerobics, feeling weird and disgusted watching myself wobble from the mirrors. Also, the excessive sweating was disgusting.

I must wonder if it's worth it. Well, yes, but I'm still wondering....

After getting home, I got a great idea for my Potter fic, but didn't get to write it down. Fortunately I haven't forgotten it. Yet. Must go and scribble it down in a minute.

Ma came home when I was already starving. She was all confused, saying she thought I'd be working today. So of course she hadn't gotten me anything to eat. At least she'd bought WB pizza. Am jealous of WB and will have to hit her in the head with a hammer or something.

So I went shopping. It's windy out there. Guess if I got more annoyed. Whoa! How did you guess?

Anyway, now am eating spaghetti, will start writing down my great (hah) idea in a minute. Feel surprisingly good at the moment.