Critical thinking vs. denial...

[Pier Marton]

... or defining he proper context for discussing what it is we don't know.

This article in the New Republic about the book "Angel at the Fence" might create a healthy discussion for those layers of information that are not so reliable, and make sure we are able to create a clear distinction between critical thinking and denial:

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=91de36ee-ef8b-4695-99c9-8...

[Pier Marton]

To add to this "monologue" (!), here is something that might/should create some uproar, a "Fake Holocaust Memoir Competition" by a Jewish magazine (Heeb).
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This is what I wrote them:
I consider your kind of competition a form of "impersonation and i.d. theft" absolutely immoral.
Just imagine if someone's most important work were stolen by someone else who claimed to be that person.
That's the importance of "not taking over "someone's voice or confusing people.

Sympathy, identification with a victim is a different thing, but it should never mean one can talk for someone else (especially to reflect incomplete and erroneous information, which is by default what falsification is about).
Are you interested in fake history?

The worst recent offender is that ignorant and misleading film/book (a misplaced tear jerker), "The boy in the striped pajamas", and believe it or not, I know rabbis who recommend it (nothing about rabbis that makes them immune to society's weaknesses). I wrote them to complain and tell them there are REAL stories that should be read instead*.

Aspire higher, people around you and even yourself will benefit from this type of struggle.
There are other ways of standing out and being coold and original.

Some people would consider my work to be part of the "avant-garde" and it is from that perspective as someone who likes to stretch boundaries that I (always) write, but I am sorry to be categorical about the fact that this project is not pushing "the envelope" in ANY enlightened way.

May this quote inspire you in that direction:
"The pure Tzaddikim (righteous people), do not complain against wickedness but add righteousness. They do not complain against disbelief but add faith. They do not complain against ignorance but add wisdom." Rav Kook (first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Palestine).

Pier Marton
*I suggest you read Primo Levi and Jean Améry, and see whether, after reading them, your (offensive) idea holds any water. Other options could include visiting Auschwitz, the U.S. Holocaust Museum in D.C. or watching the 9 hour film Shoah...