I was watching some things on the history channel today pertaining to Hitler and some of the awful things they did, including the massacres of whole villages in some of the areas they conquered. But I was stunned when I saw the films taken by them of the artwork that they destroyed just because it was cubist or other types that Hitler did not approve of. Many wonderful works of art were just burned out of existence, taken out of museums of areas that had some wonderful works of art by Cezanne and others of that era and style of painting.
He stole thousands of pieces of art that were hidden in salt mines, an easily overlooked small apartment in Munich, his own fortress in the mountains and some other incredible places. It was difficult for the special team that was appointed to find and return all these stolen pieces of art work to even return some of it because many of the towns had been obliterated. They were, however, returned to the countries that had owned them as much as possible.
I've heard that civilization is determined as much by their culture as they are by the art work that the culture treasures. I would say that applies also to the books they treasure and keep available for everyone to read. These books may not be *politically correct* as you may already know by some of the books that have been banned but even those books show how a culture has grown and matured over time. To deny that many things happened is rewriting our history and denying our growth and maturing as people.
I hate how many things that were correct and natural are now considered verboten such as a hug by a teacher when a student is hurt. We have become a nation that is eliminating things like hugs and kisses because there is a group of people who are so inhibited by nature that they interpret everything as nasty or sinister in nature. Worst of all, we are allowing these very people to direct our actions without any kind of objection. What has happened to us? Why are we just allowing other people to call the shots on our actions? On our reading material? Isn't this the kind of thing that Hitler did in Germany before the war? What kind of government are we allowing to develop? Next we will be making people with physical or mental disabilities get sterilized and who knows what will happen after that? You think it can't happen? All it takes for evil to exist is one man who keeps quiet when he should speak up. Are we ALL becoming that ONE man???
Enough for now. It's cold here again and snow flurries are predicted for us for tomorrow. Chewlee will be thrilled if it leaves snow on the ground. Unfortunately, she wants to build a snowman she told me last week. I don't think we will get enough snow to build anything but a small one. When we get snow flurries here, it makes for a lot of black ice on our roads. We have a lot of bridges for various creeks and rivers. We are also up around 3300 ft into the mountains so we have roads that are slanted in many places. Lots of hills and valleys around us. I try to avoid driving during those times because so many cars end up in ditches or slamming into other cars.
Love you all. Drive carefully. Stay warm and dry. ***Hugs***
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