Here’s a spectrum of “memory” genres 1. Autobiography 2. Family history 3. Personal memoir 4. Subcultural history 5. Public life memoir 6. Participant history Prediction: All of it is in trouble. Our cultural memory processes are breaking.
Why should a competing record stop anyone from wanting to tell a story about themselves? Are you supposing they'll be afraid to be seen as a "liar"? (A concept that will also dissolve in the same context.)
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It won’t stop them. It just won’t serve the kind of memory function it used to,
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I see. Oh well, I'm sure we'll find new ways to make sense!
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