Zu „next code: exit“ (first version)
Martin Krusche
[deutsche version]

10th March (1933) on Friday night
... again it's amazing how helpless everything collapses.
(Victor Klemperer, „I Will Bear Witness:
A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941“)

We are so vulnerable.

With practical and magical concepts we try to avert, to ban bad luck. Or, if we are affected, to make it more bearable by charging it with meaning.

We are capable to push entire peoples into misfortune. This is not a phenomenon primarily based on technology. Often enough the available supply of hammers, knives and wooden clubs is an adequate equipment.

In a practice of disciplining the conditions for such incidents are created. Each massacre begins with a war of words. These are cultural ways, which lead to horror.

It is not about the routing of pathological beings. It rises from conditions through which the "normalcy" of people finally having a break.

If these views are valid, if the main impulse of this horror cultural kind, it means this: There is a way to preventively block such processes with instruments from cultural resources.

To come to terms with the past means in this context, the former sovereignty of definition in service of the massacres has to been broken, wrested away from their promoters. The codes and contexts got to be purged of their euphemistivcally decor, to be able to check, what images, messages and discourses paved the ways to the massacres.

Because these pathways and gaits start, as I assume, in everyday life and in the banal, it is there to start the arguments and considerations, before big gestures and words evolve their influence.

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