Perhaps it was always so, but for several years now it’s felt like the collective consciousness has extreme presentism.

Huge events sweep across the world, everyone experiences them, and then they’re forgotten. Even the recent past is gone.

As for the future, the order is assumed eternal. Only the present exists.

Author of The Network State.
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Does this arise from your concern of not enough people remembering the recent past of fed actions?

living in my era of unknowns, "world builder"