In her classic work, Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt articulated the central qeustion of the Holocaust, and indeed of civilization, which is “how to overcome… the animal pity by which all normal men are affected in the presence of physical suffering?” How, indeed? There is, at this point, though, I think a far more important question: Having removed ourselves so far from our beginnings, how do we get back?
— Derrick Jensen, The Culture of Make Believe, 591-592

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