Laura Lis Scott on Nostr: “To shore up collective denial, we often do more than revise the present; we also ...

“To shore up collective denial, we often do more than revise the present; we also rewrite the past … we claim things were never that bad. This sort of “forgetting work,” or contesting the past to remove unwanted memories, produces a cultural amnesia about the pandemic. And in burying the past, we sidestep accountability for what went wrong and preserve the status quo by failing to implement lessons learned from our own history.”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/weve-hit-peak-denial-heres-why-we-cant-turn-away-from-reality/