Every generation thinks it is seeing the world for the first time. That feeling is powerful, but it hides a problem: we keep losing hard-won lessons to speed, noise, and convenience. How many of you feel like what we think we know about history is only a fragment. Something that has been extracted from history and then rewritten countless times across the millennia? The Great Forgetting The Great Forgetting is not a single event. It is a steady drift—memories of how things broke, how we fixed them, and what the fix actually cost—slipping out of view just when they’re needed most. Part of this is mechanical. Digital life rewards the new over the true. Feeds reset every morning. Search engines favor recent takes. Platforms bury corrections beneath fresh outrage. Long reports get replaced by short clips. Over time, the archive becomes a blur, and people think this week’s headline is unprecedented when an almost identical fight happened five, ten, or fifty years ago. Part of it is in...
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