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Silencing the echoes of Tiananmen
For the interest of the MCLC list: An online article on how Tiananmen is not remembered:
Silencing the Echoes of Tiananmen. By Louisa Lim. World Policy Journal 33.3 (2016), 6-11. http://wpj.dukejournals.org/content/33/3/6.full
--forwarded by Magnus Fiskesjö <nf42 at cornell.edu>
ps. --It reminds me that neurology researchers are developing new methods for erasing and replacing memories. Currently it is done in mice ("Memory Hackers. Scientists are learning how we can edit memories—and delete our worst fears." PBS NOVA, February 10, 2016. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/memory-hackers.html), with a view to offering helpful therapies for people with phobias, and such. But, once developed, such new methods might also be deployed on people so they forget what the powers-that-be want them to forget, in China and elsewhere. In such a future, the current Chinese propaganda and censorship techniques for inducing "national amnesia" on a massive scale -- as Louisa Lim discusses in this article on China -- might come to seem too laborious, and obsolete, -- as would the current techniques for torturing prisoners to make them parrot lies on TV. A simple memory-replacing therapeutic session might do it. Is this our Zombie future, we can ask.
by denton.2 at osu.edu on September 15, 2016
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