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.

In The Archeology of Knowledge, Foucault writes extensively about Recurrent Redistributions in History and our failure to recognize our repeated mistakes in the past that leads us to repeat these patterns in the future. Ex. Default swap melt down in 2008 and the unsecuritized credit lending bubble popping today