Often emerging offers positive prospects for the future: “She is an emerging artist”, “He is an emerging political figure”. Each portends a change and hopefully for the better.
Here the inverted cup has sprouted a spout!
Suddenly the tea cup is beyond the tea pot. Suddenly your neighbor becomes what he was not.
Jan Gross' Neighbors speaking of a village where neighbors became complicit in the murder of their Jewish neighbors while under Nazi occupation and then gathered up their abandoned possessions.
Certainly a reversal of roles and expectations. Who would have dreamed of these horrors and yet they have happened…
Further, under a more liberal government in Poland Gross was honored for his writing and research. Facing History indeed. Now, under the more conservative government the award was withdrawn.
Emerging "truths".
Bernard H. Pucker, BAK a Day, August 12, 2022
[Link Wikipedia, August 13, 2022: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbors:_The_Destruction_of_the_Jewish_Community_in_Jedwabne,_Poland]
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