And it does not matter what is happening in Congo, Myanmar or in a neighboring district or stadium.
This does not change the fact that our children – who seem the future of everything we should care for – learn more about sacrifice, dignity, responsibility or ideals from the new 'Star Wars' film than from ourselves or at school. Apathy has embraced us not because we do not see great visions for the future, but because we have veiled the image of our shared, common – even the closest – past.
This apathy is so deep that today – maybe for the first time in the history of mankind – while assessing the course of events in so many places, distant and close to us, it is so difficult for us to distinguish what still constitutes peace from what has already become war.
Memory and responsibility do not match anymore. This is how our entire civilization is now, at its own request, deprived of its own experience. Are we going to let Auschwitz become part of History? Or should we perhaps move it to the Mathematics section?