Crumbling World

After reading a tragic tale like Maus, you wonder to yourself, how could something so terrible happen? Then, many of us take the stance that it was a tragic human error and the world has learned from that horrifying incident. When viewing Waltz with Bashir you realize that that isn't true. Though it is not a genocide like the Holocaust, the basis remains similar that a certain group of people is being slaughtered just for who they are. Women, children, and innocent men were murdered because of an assassination that they had nothing to do with. Also, hearing things about the genocide in Rwanda and other tragedies can make a person wonder what we really learn from history sometimes. Is it just the fact that there are people who are good and people who are bad, and conflicting beliefs will always result in murder? Or is it just that different parts of the world must learn from themselves? Tying Waltz with Bashir in with Maus is a bit of a stretch due to the scale of the tragedies, but the comparison poses the question of why the world seems to not learn from history.