Historical Amnesia

[hamerfan]

Source: Slate

Historical amnesia is at once the most endearing and the most frustrating of American qualities. On the one hand, it means that—F. Scott Fitzgerald to the contrary—there really are second acts in American lives. People can move somewhere else, reinvent themselves, start again.
On the other hand, our inability to remember what our policy was last week—never mind last decade—drives outsiders crazy. We forget that we supported the dictator before we decided to destroy him. Then we can't understand why others, especially the dictator's subjects, don't always believe in the goodness of our intentions or the sincerity of our devotion to democracy.

http://www.slate.com/id/2262532/

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Wow. Just wow.

[Rhiannon12866]

1. K&R. Right on, and never more true than it is today...

:banghead:

[Jackpine Radical]

2. It's not amnesia. It's repression

and it's brought about by the Corporate Media. Orwell knew all about it.

The chocolate ration has been raised to 20 grams this month. We have ALWAYS been at war with Eastasia.

[U4ikLefty]

3. We're too busy chasing shiny objects

and hiding from our bad dreams.

[Ozymanithrax]

4. No, it is historical Alzheimer's... n/t