Museums & memorials present lots of concrete detail, but rarely point our larger patters & lessons. My guess is they do this to induce a more near mental mode, which makes people care more. Alas, at the cost of not helping us to learn useful lessons.
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Repeating a lesson can help people learn that lesson. Repeating a fact just helps them remember that fact.
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A progressive ritual procession toward abstract understanding would almost certainly be more therapeutic for those personally living in the event’s shadow, but this doesn’t seem like a priority.
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What is the point of museums and memorials if no one learns anything from them? What is a higher priority that promoting such learning?
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Sacralization - seems to have been ancestrally useful for communal cohesion and warfighting. Time to move on, I reckon
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