Amnesia leads to despair in many ways. The status quo would like you to believe it is immutable, inevitable and invulnerable,…

“Amnesia leads to despair in many ways. The status quo would like you to believe it is immutable, inevitable and invulnerable, and lack of memory of a dynamically changing world reinforces this view. In other words, when you don’t know how much things have changed, you don’t see that they are changing or that they can change.”

– Rebecca Solnit, ‘Hope is a​n embrace of the unknown’ (2016)