“Colette has won the Academy Award in the category of best documentary short…90-year-old Colette Marin-Catherine confronts her past by visiting the German concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora where her brother was killed. As a young girl, she fought Hitler’s Nazis as a member of the French Resistance. For 74 years, she has refused to step foot in Germany, but that changes when a young history student named Lucie enters her life. Prepared to re-open old wounds and revisit the terrors of that time, Marin-Catherine offers important lessons for us all.”
–Anthony Giacchino, “Collette.” The Guardian. November 2020.
Tag: World War II
The Three Main Forces Shaping the World: Demographics, Inequality, and Access to Information
“The greatest innovation of the last generation has been the destruction of information barriers that used to keep strangers isolated from one another…
—Morgan Housel, “Three Big Things: The Most Important Forces Shaping the World.” CollaborativeFund.com. October 4, 2019.
…What’s happened over the last 20 years – and especially the last 10 – has no historical precedent. The telephone eliminated the information gap between you and a distant relative, but the internet has closed the gap between you and literally every stranger in the world.”
Obvious, but sometimes stating the obvious and looking at data and likely implications is a useful exercise.
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