Post #1926861
2026-04-30 18:48 UTC
@Jeroen89
When you can still imagine something that’s lost that’s something you might be able to get back.
When folks can no longer imagine something that loss is much more profound.
For a few days after 9/11 there was so much less particulate in the atmosphere younger folks could see things in the distance they had never seen before and there were still old folks who could remember and describe it.
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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz 2026-05-01 00:01
(1/2) @stepheneb > When you can still imagine something that’s lost that’s something you might be able to get back Absolutely. This why accelerating this generational forgetting, and undermining any attempt to sustain collective memory, is a key project of corporatist propaganda. Sometimes known as 'capitalist realism'. The late David Graeber pointed out that there's a reason it's easier to imagine the end of the world than a post-capitalist one. The late Mark Fisher described it. @Jeroen89