5. Public life memoirs are falling prey to fake news, weaponized revelations and whistleblowing, and a Rashomon effect. It’s unclear if live experiences are being captured in a way that allows for definitive accounts.
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I was getting there. Indexicality at log levels
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Indexicality, consensus, non-solipsism. Pick 2 of 3.
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Seems paradoxical that as record-keeping has improved, collective memory has disintegrated. I supposed it has always been an abstraction that does not withstand the refractive, subjective nature of the historical reality.
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lyotard saw this coming all the way back in the late 70s with The Postmodern Condition being primarily driven by technological advances https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Postmodern_Condition …
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History has always been revisionist and there have always been competing viewpoints in every age. The only reason we haven’t internalized that is because eventually most are rendered irrelevant (through technology, historiography, war, etc).
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right, counter-narratives used to ("memetically") die out again due to control of media (from scrolls on up) pre-Internet
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Is this like intersectionality applied to our conscious memories?
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