News - Paperclips

There's a lot of times that I catch myself being a jerk about something. It comes with the territory of not keeping quiet about issues with logic. I try to cover it up by being witty or clever, but sometimes there is egg on my face.
Like the headline declaring that paperclips in a circle around the citadel were being linked to remember the holocaust. Really? Paper clips? Paper cranes makes sense for Hiroshima at least they're a symbol for peace and plus there is that story that breaks your heart about a girl dying of radiation after the blast. But Paper Clips?
Then I found it on my old pal Wiki -- this is a big deal. Paper clips although (I still argue) is a loose connection they're so disproportionate to a life. An entire life represented by such a small insignificant thing, something that takes hundreds to look like anything, thousands to look like a pile. But when you link 11,000,000 with the knowledge that each one is a Jew, a Gypsie, a Jehovah's Witness, a political prisoner, a homosexual, an anti-Nazi. You get the scope--and your mind is blown.
Then, when you look at the small town in the Southern United States where this project started. The Southern United States where we all think of KKK members going out to tea and a nightly cross-burning. You realize hate, intolerance and a culture of fear still exists--and we can't let it.