For Roméo Dallaire, the movie with the same name as the book did him a massive disservice. Poor guy was suffering from PTSD and almost committed suicide afterwards.
Related to Iris Chang, I’ve read The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond The Rape of Nanking: A Memoir, I think that her mother wrote (or assisted) this biography of her? It has been a while and I do not remember much of the details.
Truthfully, for a variety of reasons I’ve really struggled to do anything creatively this year. I’ve made a start on it, but when I really get rolling with it again (hopefully in the not too distant future), I would think it will still be about a year off being finished.
It’s really cool you saw an ad for book 2, though, chuffed with that!
I always think about this as similar to the concept of entropy in chemistry. The natural chemical and physical order is a tendency towards disorder so that creating and maintaining order requires energy. In the social context, we have to work hard, and sometimes against our innate urges for the creation and maintenance of a civil and just society.
I have had this thought as well!..you put it very well. In fact a muse of mine right now is borrowing from physics into metaphysics; Giles Deleuze did it to me, in post-structuralism, how words and concepts evolve like trees grow, or like how mud hits the floor. Bifurcation and rhizome. It really is nothing to do with logic or A+B=C. Its way more complicated.
I do have trouble with entropy, though, as I know I havent lived long enough, but the universe does seem to be in a kind of balance. And so also outwith the big bang!