If Anne Frank had been a blogger-without fear of discovery-would anyone have believed a word she said?
I've often wondered.
Her circumstances were so beyond belief, would the human mind have had the capacity to wrap itself around the concepts of banishment and segregation that Anne and countless others endured?
Or would she be shrugged off as just a silly girl who blogged "Kitty", a young girl from a family obviously vetted in some sort of political disagreement with that funny Charlie Chaplain type leader with the equally strange name of Adolph Hitler?
Would her readers remain so wrapped up in a brain loyal to their own beliefs, shrinking back into the comfort of a mind made up, a mind closed to thinking that might just differ from a reality one has taken-chosen-decided-determined beyond all doubt-as the ultimate truth, distorted to block such savagery, to deceive the everyday walker of life that indeed all was well with the world?
Leaders lead, they don't segregate people, take their property, their careers, ostracize their children, brainwash their neighbors with a cultural, racist myth.
Leaders don't line people up and walk them to their deaths in a gang shower.
Leaders don't do that. Leaders lead their people.
Could Anne have been saved, if she were a blogger and not a diarist? Would she still be with us today-close to eighty years old-reminiscing on the couch with David Letterman about those long ago days behind closed doors, where the Frank family and their friends hid sequestered while the world once known became as foreign as the treatment to which they had been subjected?
If the world had known-if Anne could have been a blogger-would the world question their leaders and the laws based on lies to gain control of a proud people?
If Anne had been a blogger and got the word out, would the people have cared enough to learn the truth?
Or would they have said, "Leaders lead. Leaders protect. Leaders don't lie to their people."
Silly girl with a yellow star.