into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far,
so you shall come back with self-respect, with
new power, with an advanced experience
that shall explain and overlook the old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When speaking on how the murderous hatred of the Nazis and their will to destroy was stronger than the will of those to prevent this insanity—and on how too many people stood silently by and watched the ethnic cleansing go on—Anne Frank wrote in her diary not long before her death at age 15; “The little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen in revolt long ago!” At this young age Anne had realized the sad reality of human nature and the conditioning processes of our world; “There’s in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage” (May 3, 1944; ver. A). Anne was also aware of the fear that people would let overcome them and how the individual’s unwillingness to face this fear would cause him to stick his head in the sand and seek escape through some bizarre form of religion or some other form of nonsense for entertainment.