Nothing Changes

It is the eve of the Jewish New Year, so I suppose it is fitting that I am watching Episode 3 of the amazing Ken Burns Documentary about the US and the Holocaust. Episode 3 takes place during my lifetime, and also during the time the vast majority of Europe’s Jews were being aggregated in ghettos, labor camps, and death centers to be shot, gassed, and slaughtered by the Nazis. No wonder my mother couldn’t nurse me. But oh yeah, that was the past. It was so long ago. We have come so far since then. We have cars that almost drive themselves.