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Political Amnesia is the Enemy…
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Our amnesia about recent developments seems to be induced and reinforced by the very fast-paced entertainment-oriented formats that we have become addicted to as sources of news and knowledge. They keep us in the present, in the now, disconnected from any larger ideas or analytical framework.
The blogger Billmon writes: "I don’t know if it’s a byproduct of decades of excessive exposure to television, the state of America’s educational system, or something in the water, but the ability of the average journalist — not to mention the average voter — to remember things that happened just a few short months ago appears to be slipping into the abyss. "If this keeps up, we’re going to end up like the villagers in "One Hundred Years of Solitude," who all contracted a rare form of jungle amnesia, so virulent they were reduced to posting signs on various objects — ‘I AM A COW. MILK ME’ or ‘I AM A GATE. OPEN ME’ — just so they could get on with their daily lives."
"We’re forgetting the past," says historian Howard Zinn, "because neither our educational system nor our media inform us about the past. For instance, the history of the Vietnam War has been very much forgotten. I believe this amnesia is useful to those conducting our present foreign policy. It would be embarrassing if the story of the Vietnam War were told at a time when we are engaged in a war which has some of the same characteristics: government deception, the killing of civilians through bombing, scaring the American people (world communism in that case, terrorism in this one)."
Source: www.alternet.org/mediaculture/36743/
P.S: the best way to contemplate this all is after drinking a bottle of red wine and then listen to Nathan Fake – Superpositions
Public Input Sought on Farmland Protection
The Erie County Agricultural and Farmland Protection Board, along with the Erie County Department of Environment and Planning, will host a public meeting to gather information that will be used in preparing strategies to insure the future of agriculture in the county’s economy. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Mon., March 21 at the Cornell Cooperative Extension, 21 South Grove St., East Aurora.
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