LIVING IN A WORLD WITHOUT MEMORY

In a world without memory, you won't be able to know roses in December.

We are apparently being pushed into a type of national Alzhiemer's dementia where memory is to be forever erased.

Confederaphobia seeks to erase the memory of history.  No heroes from the South.  No markers.  No flags.  No reinactments.  No memories.

America marches on into the fog.

The problem is not that people will forget all memories of the confederacy.  That might not be too bad.  The problem is, who gets to decide which memories we can have and which ones we cannot have?  National leaders pushing to erase the memory of the confederacy may like the world without memories they are now creating, because they can still remember their heroes.

But when we give people this unlimited power to censor, to choose what can be remembered and what cannot be remembered, the tide eventually turns.  It is an awesome and fearful power--this power to decide what can be remembered and what cannot.

I fear that this power is not being used rationally.  It is being used to promote the wishes of a certain group of people because it has the political power, at least for now, to make it happen.  What happens if the wrong group of people gain the power to choose what memories can be remembered? 

The problem is, who gets to decide which memories we can have and which ones we can't have?