[ETA] I just finished this up… at the end they discuss the Oct. 7th attack with Nat Turner’s rebellion… this is probably the most interesting part for me, with regards to better understanding Coates’ moral center… that’s a hard and difficult place to land… but it reminds me of this scene from Come and See…
After all he experienced, Flyora can’t shoot baby hitler… Here is a good explanation as to why, and I think that Coates hits on that in the interview when he talks about the Nat Turner rebellion and Oct. 7th…
This line:
The worst thing that evil people can do is to turn you into one of them.
Primo Levi talks specifically about that… how the goal of the nazis was to make the people in the death camps complicit in the genocide of their own people…
