The current mainstream debate regarding the crisis in Iraq and Syria offers a near perfect example of both the death of historical memory and the collapse of critical thinking in the United States. It also signifies the emergence of a profoundly anti-democratic culture of manufactured ignorance and social indifference.
By Henry A. Giroux Truthout.org | News Analysis 24 June 2014
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For in the world in which we live it is no longer merely a question of the decay of collective memory and declining consciousness of the past, but of the aggressive [assault on] whatever memory remains, the deliberate distortion of the historical record, the invention of mythological pasts in the service of the powers of darkness.
− Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi[1]
All reification is forgetting. − Herbert Marcuse[2]
The current mainstream debate regarding the crisis in Iraq and Syria…
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