Their hidden or even visible anguish is of no interest. And, therefore, their lives are meaningless. Yet, for the person who is indifferent, his or her neighbor are of no consequence. It is, after all, awkward, troublesome, to be involved in another person's pain and despair. It is so much easier to avoid such rude interruptions to our work, our dreams, our hopes. It is so much easier to look away from victims. Of course, indifference can be tempting - more than that, seductive. What are its courses and inescapable consequences? Is it a philosophy? Is there a philosophy of indifference conceivable? Can one possibly view indifference as a virtue? Is it necessary at times to practice it simply to keep one's sanity, live normally, enjoy a fine meal and a glass of wine, as the world around us experiences harrowing upheavals? What is indifference? Etymologically, the word means "no difference." A strange and unnatural state in which the lines blur between light and darkness, dusk and dawn, crime and punishment, cruelty and compassion, good and evil. And, on a different level, of course, Auschwitz and Treblinka. These failures have cast a dark shadow over humanity: two World Wars, countless civil wars, the senseless chain of assassinations (Gandhi, the Kennedys, Martin Luther King, Sadat, Rabin), bloodbaths in Cambodia and Algeria, India and Pakistan, Ireland and Rwanda, Eritrea and Ethiopia, Sarajevo and Kosovo the inhumanity in the gulag and the tragedy of Hiroshima. What will the legacy of this vanishing century be? How will it be remembered in the new millennium? Surely it will be judged, and judged severely, in both moral and metaphysical terms. We are on the threshold of a new century, a new millennium. Clinton, for what you said, and for what you are doing for children in the world, for the homeless, for the victims of injustice, the victims of destiny and society. And I am grateful to you, Hillary, or Mrs. Gratitude is what defines the humanity of the human being. President - Commander-in-Chief of the army that freed me, and tens of thousands of others - and I am filled with a profound and abiding gratitude to the American people. Though he did not understand their language, their eyes told him what he needed to know - that they, too, would remember, and bear witness.Īnd now, I stand before you, Mr. And even if he lives to be a very old man, he will always be grateful to them for that rage, and also for their compassion. Liberated a day earlier by American soldiers, he remembers their rage at what they saw. He was finally free, but there was no joy in his heart. Clinton, members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, Excellencies, friends:įifty-four years ago to the day, a young Jewish boy from a small town in the Carpathian Mountains woke up, not far from Goethe's beloved Weimar, in a place of eternal infamy called Buchenwald. The album was mixed by Chris Lord-Alge in Los Angeles. It would be called The Sufferer & the Witness. You won't find any acoustic guitar on this one, but perhaps a few other surprises and curveballs await your curious ears.look for an early summer release." The album's name was told in the same news release.
The band talked about the sound and release date of the album in April, saying, " We're pretty excited and can't wait for you to hear it. It was made with Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore for 12 weeks between January and April 2006. The band began in January 2006 in Chicago. Also in December, it was said that Bill Stevenson would make the album at the Blasting Room studio in Fort Collins, Colorado. The band had been writing songs and ideas during the Siren Song of the Counter Culture tour and had finished five songs by early December 2005. Making the album Īfter the good reviews of their big label debut, Siren Song of the Counter Culture, and its single, " Swing Life Away", Rise Against came back to the studio in January 2006 to start their fourth studio album. The song "Drones" was used for WWE's 2007 Royal Rumble's theme song. It sold 48,000 copies in its first week, debuting at number 10 on the Billboard 200. The album follows 2004's Siren Song of the Counter Culture. It was their second release on popular label, Geffen Records.
The Sufferer & the Witness is the fourth album by American punk rock band Rise Against.
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