
I replied,
Stalin said, "One murder is a tragedy, a million murders is a statistic." It's impossible to think about killing on that scale. Anne was chosen because in trying to own the great sin of genocide, all you can do is think about one face, one name, one story you know as well as if she told it to you herself. Which Anne did, in "Diary of a Young Girl." It's a story we all know. To confront the collective Shadow by meditating on her fate is to make a tiny partial repayment against her fate and the fate of all the others torn from their lives in such a horrendous fashion.
The
spirit who incarnated as Anne Frank has long ago moved on to bigger and
better things. What matters now is the archetype her image can
represent. Mythically, she is the Martyred Innocent, a sacrifice in a
game our highest selves are playing to redeem the universe. That's
awful, but it's true. Let's hope they win, and it'll all turn out to be
worth it. Otherwise, it's back to the Stone Age or maybe even extinction
for us.
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