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- May 2017
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quod.lib.umich.edu.libproxy1.usc.edu quod.lib.umich.edu.libproxy1.usc.edu
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Robert Penn Warren: "When one is happy in forgetfulness, facts get forgotten."
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- Jun 2015
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caseyboyle.net caseyboyle.net
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digital memory systems radically augment the scope and dura- tion of personal ritemory far beyond the lifespan of the person in question
Yeah, if the memory is maintained. I can't even keep my iTunes library from disintegrating. If your hard drive crashes, you lose it all, unless it's backed up, in which case you're creating copies that too will differ and degrade.
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Forgetting allows such monstrous crimes to exist in the absence of moral response and thereby compounds their destruction
This passage evoked Lyotard's The Differend.
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Forgetting is psychologically unhealthy: it leads to repression,
This seems like kind of a big slippage (between forgetting & repression), imho.
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