11. After the Revolution, the Declaration gathered dust in the collective memory until politics brought it back to life. 12. Against those, our collective memory includes nine presidential elections with an incumbent on the ballot. 13. All that is engraved on the collective memory of America, indeed the world. 14. But how short the collective memory! 15. But it is also a collective memory of defeat and humiliation. 16. But it also evokes a keenly nostalgic idealized shtetl of collective memory. 17. But not all the collective memories are bad. 18. But public, widely acknowledged traumas that today are closely linked with the news media also register personally while becoming part of the collective memory. 19. But the images of hijacked planes ramming into the towers, and their subsequent collapse, still haunt collective memory. 20. But while individual memory is under fire, collective memory is being hotly pursued. |
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