Social Amnesia Quotes

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.

When it comes to certain portions of our history, we've just forgotten it all.

I love talking about the Kennedy assasination. The reason I do is because I'm fascinated by it. I'm fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it. I think that's interesting in what is ostensibly a democracy. Sarcasm - come on in. People say Bill, quit talking about Kennedy man. It was a long time ago, just let it go, alright? It's a long time ago, just forget it. I'm like, alright, then don't bring up Jesus to me. As long as we're talking shelf life here.

“Never again” doesn’t reckon with money’s ability to erase memory.

Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.

We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how we became what we are, we're going to start suffering from all the obvious detrimental effects of amnesia.

Whole generations have forgotten history.

We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.

Memory in America suffers amnesia.

For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.

People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.

I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.

It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade away, and as a species we survive on this notion. In our desire to gloss over the undeniable macabre parts of our American history, we forget. That amnesia manifests itself, especially when dealing with the plight of black men.

I am shocked that we seemed to have learned nothing, absolutely nothing, from Vietnam.

White Americans have a short memory.