#220: When forgetting is good
Forgetting is a feature, not a bug. It makes us feel like we’re moving forward through time, rather than standing still or running in circles. My grandmother and her ancestors knew this all too well. Artful forgetting, editing, and curation allowed them to craft narratives that helped their children understand the past and orient towards the... See more
Aaron Z. Lewis • The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time
In resurrection, remembering, or a coming back to life, we also have to forget something: we have to forget about the limitations that come with being human in this physical world. In the age of social media—when we are inundated with traumatic material at a rate unlike any other time in human history—our task is to find a way to continue living in
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- As I said, I believe in trying to trick your brain to do stuff it doesn’t want to do. but I also believe that the natural limits of your attention, memory, and desire can be a really valuable tool. I’m not a rigorous note-taker or archivist; I annotate my books to help me find what I need on a re-read, but beyond that I generally like the idea that