memory individual, unreproducible – dies person. called collective mem — Susan Sontag, Regarding Pain Others

Regarding the Pain of Others Susan Sontag

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All memory is individual, unreproducible – it dies with each person. What is called collective memory is not a remembering but a stipulating: that this is important, and this is the story about how it happened, with the pictures that lock the story in our minds.

Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

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