Manipulating Holocaust memory threatens the future’s human habitability

Evidence

If Orwell is right that control of the past allows control of the future, it is imperative, for the sake of that future, that those who control the present are not allowed to manipulate the past in a fashion likely to render the future inhospitable to humanity and uninhabitable. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 708

Categorization

• XREF: Frames why the reader’s Islamophobia work must contest historical memory of the Holocaust. — connects to: Social engineering ambition combined with concentrated power produced the Holocaust — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 224; The Holocaust functions as a laboratory test revealing modernity’s hidden capacities. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 68; The Holocaust was rational social management in scientific dress — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 207 (+3 more)

Related

• The Holocaust is a by-product of runaway modernist design (similarity 0.84)
• The Holocaust functions as a laboratory test revealing modernity’s hidden capacities. (similarity 0.83)
• The Holocaust combined long-festering social tensions with the rational instruments modernity created (similarity 0.83)
• The Holocaust must be read as integral to modernity, not as its aberration. (similarity 0.83)
• The Holocaust reveals civilization’s capacity for industrialized destruction as inseparable from its progress. (similarity 0.83)
• Modernity’s institutions actively enabled and supplied the Holocaust (similarity 0.83)
• All Holocaust scholarship is ultimately a debate over modernity’s self-image. (similarity 0.82)
• The Holocaust is a possibility modernity contains, not its paradigm (similarity 0.82)
• The Holocaust resulted from an unchained state wielding violence and engineering ambitions (similarity 0.81)
• The Holocaust is a product of modern rational society, not a Jewish problem alone (similarity 0.81)
• The Holocaust was a product of modernity, not pre-modern barbarity. (similarity 0.81)
• The Holocaust’s confinement to Jewish-only memory served both outsiders and insiders (similarity 0.81)
• The Holocaust was a product of modern civilization, not merely its failure (similarity 0.81)
• Social engineering ambition combined with concentrated power produced the Holocaust (similarity 0.80)
• The Holocaust was rational social management in scientific dress (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Social engineering ambition combined with concentrated power produced the Holocaust #corroborates (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 224
• The Holocaust functions as a laboratory test revealing modernity’s hidden capacities. #corroborates (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 68
• The Holocaust was rational social management in scientific dress #corroborates (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 207
• Modern genocide functions as social engineering toward a perfect society #corroborates (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 264
• Human freedom to begin new things resists the tyranny of logical deduction #contradicts (0.72)