They didn't see a way to make big bucks by keeping it alive.
This is a downside of a "compassionate" society.
In the Middle East, we have wars that get won by one side, and the losing side declares victory and holds a series of parades.
If the Nazi's had done that in the summer and fall of 1945, they would have been massacred. Their "victory parades" would have been fired upon by heavy machine guns, they would have been strafed from the air.
But because of "compassion," these things don't happen today. The result is, you have cancerous societal thought-viruses — mental malware — that grows and propagates and poisons people and ruins their lives, and there's not a thing that can be done about it. Except to do your best to spread the truth and resist the lies, keep your own mental house in order.
It's a result of "compassion," and mass communications technology that makes it possible to spread lies across the world at the speed of light at essentially zero economic cost.
“This is a downside of a “compassionate” society.
In the Middle East, we have wars that get won by one side, and the losing side declares victory and holds a series of parades.”
Your comments make me think of partly why the Cong won in Vietnam. They needed ones like Walter Cronkite and The Dan to tell the opposite of what was going on there concerning American successes and VC brutality (along with their hit pieces on Nixon to further delegitimize him and his Presidency). Had that not taken place, South Vietnam would probably be still around today and spared of the re-education camps and other forms of Hanoi subjugation and oppression.
The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia probably would not have been so emboldened as well to take over that country and commit it’s absolutely unspeakable horrors.