this is an interesting poking-at of the evolution of a historical reference point over time--possibly the single most important reference point for Americans since 1945https://twitter.com/kilovh/status/1211088661636419584 …
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A related idea (if you ask me) is the Etruscan /saeculum/: the complete turnover of a population, past which no living person has a firsthand memory of an event I think this is more important in the life of a people than is often understood
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Yes, we can read (and perhaps forget) firsthand accounts; but few will retain them, fewer will learn much of their original context, and no one living will have the consequences etched in their bones But the first generation all /lived/ it
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The True Holocaust--the Holocaust of this world--lived with the generation that experienced it or saw it in the wild. They are almost passed now, and no museum will tell the story with fidelity. So with all things.
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