HUMAN 1CS Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Maya Lin, Moral Relativism
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Herbert says his understanding of holocaust memorial is the same as jewish families being separated: herbert cannot conclude that because he was not there. Kluger may be made at the memorial that creates the interpretation. Controversial when built: doesn"t differentiate between people who were killed, ordering: chronological when killed. People felt it dishonored the dead: herbert says that the flag wouldn"t have made sense after the vietnam war, meaning of the flag shifted over time. Having flag on anything = post 9/11 culture: maya lin did not want american flag on memorial. Patches of people along memorial: no sections for officers, families. One can"t ask for forgiveness without passing judgement. Herbert interprets as series of contradictions: forgiveness cannot be given without judgement, one must judge in order to forgive, impossible: must have judged it wrong in the first place in order to forgive.
