The constant forgetting (why humanity has lost its memory)

We are probably the strangest species the world has ever known, or that we are aware of. We are the only civilised animal species, since we learned to eat with a spoon and fork so as not to dirty our hands. Supposedly, we developed agriculture, fishing, architecture, navigation, astronomy, writing, and the other arts. Did we really develop them? The historical framework that narrates the progress of the human species has long suggested that this evolution occurred gradually or linearly, yet we find Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilisations, among many others, that suddenly emerged as fully formed civilisations, institutionally complete and socially organised. There is no such evolutionary evidence that led them to appear around 4000 BC in such a perfectly defined way. From the men of stones and pictographs to the men of cities and writing, there is supposed to have been the most unusual transformation behind our great institutions. It is easier to explain why humanity should not be as technologically and scientifically advanced as it is at this point than to explain how it is, according to what is established. But from that “civilised” appearance onwards, the human species has followed paths such as the loss of all memory of that part of history. And from Greek times to the new millennium, we have only been rediscovering what those first “civilised” ancestors seem to have known, judging by the unmistakable evidence of their legacy, such as pyramids or ziggurats. So instead of moving forward in a linear way through known history, what we have truly experienced is a regression, together with the constant search for our lost past.

How have we been able to forget how we got here? It is easy to answer why: we live in a society under a civilised programme called constant forgetting. Memory is lost every two or three generations. Most children will never know their great-grandparents, and if they did, they would be living in realities so different from the world around them that children or grandchildren would once again impose themselves over their ancestors, simply because they live in the programmed present. Your great-grandparents may have lived through the Second World War, and with it the entire socially programmed spectrum of propaganda of those times. They did horrible things, knowing they were doing them, yet they were driven to do so. They justified it. They saw how the war finally ended and the supposed peace arrived. Their children, and their children’s children, would have a land to live in, in peace. But they were never able to forget all those justified acts. Nor could they share them, because fifty years after the war people had forgotten the memory caused by it. It had been hidden beneath a commemorative flag once a year. There would be no more talk of war, out of shame. Because it is truly shameful that a human group, proclaimed as civilised, united unjustifiably, driven by psychopathic interests, to destroy 3.76% of humanity, official figures. We had to forget it. We have forgotten that, before destroying civilians in the known world wars, mankind had enslaved humanity under the yoke of tyranny. The “masters” possessed private human labour, not by choice but by imposition. We did those horrible things, and we also had to forget them. One part of known humanity, the programmed part, has been dominating and tyrannising another part of humanity for millennia, whether through slavery or through war.

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