“The sum of historical knowledge has always been held by a
small number of educated people at any given time, and this has not changed.
But our world is geared at keeping up with a furiously paced present, with no
time for the complex past; and the fact that a very large number of literate
people with unprecedented access to advanced education and scanned sources has
no sense of what the world was like only yesterday points to the possibility of
eventually arriving at a state of collective amnesia. We risk remaining stuck
within a culture where everyone ignores the sundry causal connections that make
the present what it is…”
Noga Arikha
“Present-ism”
What We Should Be Worried About
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