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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Replying to @robinhanson
Maybe they could be staged so that, as you progress through the museum or memorial, the exhibits (which start very concrete) become increasingly abstract.
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Replying to @PereGrimmer @robinhanson
People benefit from repetition and callbacks. You could periodically restate and cognitively map things together. Even if it doesn’t ultimately stick, you can leave them with a sort of negative theological sense of history.
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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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Replying to @paul_hundred @PereGrimmer
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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