In 1905, George Santayana wrote that “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” In the 1970s, historian Russell Jacoby reexamined the American reluctance and rejection of remembering, and learning from, past events, calling it “social amnesia.” His 1975 book suggests “ … society has lost its memory, and with it, its […]
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