Episode 172 – Are They Erasing Our Memory? The War on History & Attention
In this episode, we talk about how memory might be being conditioned out of us by the media in order to 1984 us.From rapid-cut media to news narrative cycles, have we become a culture that is conditioned for short-term thinking?We talk about:The idea that “what happened” depends on who tells the storyMinistry of Truth-style updating of historyThe tearing down of statues and people like Father Junípero Serra, and others who have been vilified in recent rewritesWe also talk about how narratives and events are quickly forgotten on purpose:Political leadership in Minneapolis covering up fraud…
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