Random Thoughts

[Rev. Rye]

Here's a really fucked up thing: if you're having a stressful day at work, pick up Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking, the story of a time when humanity dropped the ball so hard that the Nazis had to step in and try to stem the horror. Yes, you read that correctly: THE MOTHERFUCKING NAZIS, the last group you'd expect to save thousands of non-white lives (admittedly, more one Nazi Party member named John Rabe than the personal intervention of Adolf Hitler, who probably couldn't care less) had to be the ones to set up the Nanking Safety Zone that sheltered 200,000 Chinese and stem the tide of rape and murder.

It really puts it all into perspective.