Their Control is Maintained with Constant Forgetting
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The ruling order is propped up by more than simple laws. Police checkpoints, border guards, carceral facilities, and surveillance devices notwithstanding, the dominant form of control in our world is the state of mandatory forgetting in which we are all forced to live. Every single day, a new scandal or campaign mobilizes the attention and concern of millions of people, who, without even knowing it, are plucked from historical existence as if by a bird of prey, snatched from the contemplative life into the eagle's beak of absolute and uninterrupted amnesia.
Their Control is Maintained with Constant Forgetting
Their Control is Maintained with Constant…
Their Control is Maintained with Constant Forgetting
The ruling order is propped up by more than simple laws. Police checkpoints, border guards, carceral facilities, and surveillance devices notwithstanding, the dominant form of control in our world is the state of mandatory forgetting in which we are all forced to live. Every single day, a new scandal or campaign mobilizes the attention and concern of millions of people, who, without even knowing it, are plucked from historical existence as if by a bird of prey, snatched from the contemplative life into the eagle's beak of absolute and uninterrupted amnesia.