The disintegration of memory

Given that it's Easter Sunday, I thought it would be particularly appropriate to mention survivors of the Holocaust. Sean has been arguing (here and here) that science does not give us morality. And, as the Pope and the Catholic Church have resoundingly demonstrated, God doesn't seem to provide us with morality either. None of this means that we shouldn't strive to make the world a better place. Nor that we can't say that the Holocaust was evil. Maciek Nabrdalik has been photographing survivors of the Nazi concentration camps. Nabrdalik is quoted in a New York Times blog: “I believe that by looking into their eyes, a sharper perspective will appear and perhaps help us understand the nature of the enormity of this atrocity a little bit better,” Mr. Nabrdalik said. “Understand it on a human scale, that is.” The photographs show only shining faces, surrounded by an encroaching blackness. Perhaps ...