Michael Malice

We don't do this anymore.

We're civilized now.

So genocide is...

historically the norm.

I think it's also harder to pull it off emotionally when you have the visuals and when you have the audio and when you have the voices of the people being slaughtered.

We don't know, you know, if this was 2000 years ago and people, you know, in the Bible, like go kill this group, go kill that group.

We don't have their names.

We don't have the visuals.

We don't have anything.

But when you see

Someone being like, you know, there's a book about, I think, the Rwandan genocide.

And the title is, we regret to inform you that tomorrow we will be executed with all of our families, like a telegram.

And like, when you get a telegram like this, it's very different than reading some history book about, you know, the Assyrians killed the Phoenicians.

It's like, I don't know who this is.

I don't know who that is, right?

Yeah.

So I think this is something that has changed very recently.

There was this kind of interesting moment just that speaks to the way technology has liberated people from violence.

Kristallnacht, which was a moment in the lead up to the Holocaust, where basically with Hitler's blessing, you had a nationwide burning of Jewish bodies.

businesses, synagogues burnt down, and Kaiser Wilhelm, you know, the Kaiser, he said, for the first time in my life, I'm embarrassed to be a German.