Salvador Dali The Rose painting

Salvador Dali The Rose painting
Salvador Dali The Persistence of Memory painting
The secret of much murder and evildoing is to dehumanize the victim, to make him alien, to make him Other, a different species. When we have done that, we have prepared ourselves to kill him, for to kill the Other, to kill a snake, a roach, a pest, a Jew, a scorpion, a black, a centipede, a Palestinian, a hyena, an Iraqi, a wild dog, an Israeli … it’s O. K.If Saddam Hussein was a poisonous snake in the desert, and he had 1 million poisonous snake arrayed around him, then it was good sense to drop bombs and kill 100,000 snakes and thus turn back the snake menace.But , of course, the 100,000 Iraqis were not snakes.To kill 100,000 people and to feel no pain at having done so may enter, deaths