It is easy to not ever know that several off the first vessel to live in that Thanksgiving celebrating first colony, were mutineers on board and eventually hung after returning from exile. He remarks of the amnesia for 600,000 mostly civilian deaths from our carpet bombings.Īmnesias of the United States are seen with histories of who came her and why. The Iranians and the average citizen of India are typical “Aryans.” Author Winfried Sebald recounts his Bavarian school experience of being shown holocaust photos which no one could explain or contextualize. The Nazi made a mythic history for their race, although Aryans are technically from the far steppes and dark skinned. The essays of Roland Barthes are about modern myth making. We will even find it easily relatable to penal reforms. Hold off the forced ignorance of Freud’s early suppositions, bear with me through a little Barthes and we will end up in current America, recycling the past with new labels and calling it progress.
SOCIAL AMNESIA IMPOSSIBLE THEATER EBAY FULL
Just as with some persons, all seems to be going well, the wound healed until one day something triggers the full blown response. He theorizes the greater amnesias take a time to develop. It was his expertise that made him view an inability to accept past catastrophes as the source of man’s aggression. It’s another to ignore the reason he was interested and to forget his area of study back in Vienna.
It’s one thing to disregard an old man doubling down on his writings out of his expertise. Myths are myths, not edited history, they whispered. Catastrophes just never have happened as he enquired of in Worlds in Collision, they screamed. The story goes that his sidelining was because of bad geology (sin of anti-uniformitarianism) and orbital science (the effects of electro-magnetism along gravity, a theory since rehabilitated). This professor was still at home or going to his first school when Velikovsky, a doctor trained in psychiatry by Freud’s pupil Wilhelm Stekel, came up with “cultural amnesia.” Alas, the doctor has been a victim of the process. If you believe Hobbes was looking back from the city on the hill of modern enlightenment, please remember that they still hung convicts in cages and left heads on stakes on London Bridge and other places for the people to see.Ī careless Wikipedia read could lead you to think Russell Jacoby coined the term in the mid 1970’s. Perhaps its course is like the background violence that (still) surrounds life in many settings too much like the “nasty, brutish and short” Hobbes supposed of earlier times. Perhaps it is most like our reactions to vicarious trauma which is at some distance from the individual. As amnesia is one of the defense mechanisms of man (or woman) so social amnesia is a defense against collective traumas.
So can institutions.īecause I throw the term “social amnesia” around so freely, I want to take a little time to give it a chance to become part of your tool-set for interpreting the world at large.
Just as the child violently abused might loose recall, so may a society loose the truth of its past. Just as individuals have mechanisms to forget inconvenient truths or traumatic events from the past, so does the community, nation and globe. Social Amnesia and American Corrections and Rehabilitation
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