Here's a podcast about neuroscience(?) stuff, relating humans and chimps and how we develop etc - and right about the 7 minute mark, the woman says something about how the hippocampus helps convert short-term memory to long-term memory, and that kinda popped a flashbulb in my brain.
It's a close variation on the Orwell thing about if you control the past you control the future.
(paraphrasing) "If you can't remember the past, you can't imagine a future".
I flashed on how propaganda is supposed to work - and it occurs to me that maybe we're seeing that concept playing out. So, if I can disconnect you from your own history; if I can make you believe the history you were taught is all wrong; and knowing that you'd then be unable to come up with a coherent vision of your future for yourself, it would be pretty easy for me just to hand you a tidy little package of everything I want you to do and to think and to be. Sometimes I hate my brain.
Anyway, it's an interesting discussion about other things as well.
hat tip = FB friend DR
It's a close variation on the Orwell thing about if you control the past you control the future.
(paraphrasing) "If you can't remember the past, you can't imagine a future".
I flashed on how propaganda is supposed to work - and it occurs to me that maybe we're seeing that concept playing out. So, if I can disconnect you from your own history; if I can make you believe the history you were taught is all wrong; and knowing that you'd then be unable to come up with a coherent vision of your future for yourself, it would be pretty easy for me just to hand you a tidy little package of everything I want you to do and to think and to be. Sometimes I hate my brain.
Anyway, it's an interesting discussion about other things as well.
hat tip = FB friend DR
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