Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia Introduction to the December 17, 2017 issue of Other Voices Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memories and the past. That's the nature of capitalism, especially the speeded-up hypercapitalism of today. The past is useless: profits are made by getting rid of the old and replacing it with something new.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017 Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2017 Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.