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Sunday, 05 July 2009

Museum’s reach exceeds its grasp: If you have a few minutes to spare, you might want to take a gander at this promotional DVD for Canada’s Museum for Human Rights. It’s what you might call a real eye-opener since it reveals that the museum is not a “museum” as you or I understand it--a place to exhibit and preserve ephemera, relics and oddities from the past. My word, no. It has far loftier goals. It aims at nothing less than transforming the entire planet. And how does it hope to fulfill such an ambitious agenda? As far as I can tell, it’s with lots of fancy technology like “holograms” and gimmicks like an “electronic human rights key” that will enable visitors to feel good and guilty by listening to shadows telling us about Canada’s awful history vis-à-vis its Aboriginals (and, lucky us, we can even “step into a sharing circle”). We will also get to learn about how crappy it feels to be “bullied” at school and “the importance of clean air and drinking water for all humanity”--that is, stuff that really isn’t about “human rights” per se, but that’s a nice distraction from a global scene that reveals that “human rights” are reserved for a fairly small segment of us, while the majority is forced to live under sharia and other brutally oppressive systems.
All in all, it amounts to little more than feel-good mush for the clueless masses. And because it presents such a falsely sanguine view of mankind (i.e. that we’re destined to continue “ascending” and “advancing”), I predict it will end up doing more harm than good (not to mention the harm it’s doing to taxpayers’ wallets).

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