Societies falsify history through planned amnesia and evidence destruction

Evidence

By controlling their own records, and purging them, and cutting all the interesting parts out of them, they are forcing a state of amnesia on a whole country—on us—so that we don’t know what we as a purportedly self-governing nation did. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 1085 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Societies become historical by reinterpreting the past as memorial, not merely by having one; Secrecy suppresses knowledge, enforcing historical amnesia. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 1085; Loss of historical memory harms groups the way amnesia harms individuals — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1821 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Secrecy suppresses knowledge, enforcing historical amnesia. #corroborates (0.95) — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 1085