And saving human civilization is how we remain indispensable. We cannot bomb our way to security in the twenty-first century. Instead, we must build … - Daniel Suarez

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

When privacy is criminalized,
only criminals will have privacy.

But human memories change each time they are recalled, Jon. This is known as memory reconsolidation. It’s part of a natural updating mechanism that imbues even old memories with current information as you recall them. Thus, human memory does not so much record the past as hold knowledge likely to be useful in the future. That’s why forgetting is a human’s default state. By contrast, remembering requires a complex cascade of chemistry. Were I to increase the concentration of protein kinase C at your synapses, your memory retention would double.