Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as collective memory — part of the same family of spurious notions as collective guilt. But there is collec… - Susan Sontag

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Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as collective memory — part of the same family of spurious notions as collective guilt. But there is collective instruction....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.