We REALLY need to reintroduce the Roman custom of Damnatio Memoriae—"damnation of memory", excision of a name and person from the written record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae
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Santayana has entered the chat…
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905
@Dhmspector Even those who can remember the past are often still condemned to repeat it (paraphrasing Freud) @cstross
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@Dhmspector Even those who can remember the past are often still condemned to repeat it (paraphrasing Freud) @cstross
Sadly true.
… and for still others, it seems repeating the past is their whole goal. (See Trump and fascism)
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We REALLY need to reintroduce the Roman custom of Damnatio Memoriae—"damnation of memory", excision of a name and person from the written record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/116311624371729823
We REALLY need to reintroduce the Roman custom of Damnatio Memoriae—"damnation of memory", excision of a name and person from the written record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae
@cstross Been saying this for years. Damnatio memoriae, and also exile. Preferably to a space capsule orbiting a black hole.
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@cstross it’s gonna be hard, with his minted coins and his signature of currency bills. But I sister has a mortal fear of being erased
@Remittancegirl
I think the Federal Reserve Notes will be removed from circulation through unofficial means. MAGA will keep some as mementos, and I graffiti will appear on them, so the notes will eventually need to be retired.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/116311624371729823
We REALLY need to reintroduce the Roman custom of Damnatio Memoriae—"damnation of memory", excision of a name and person from the written record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae
@cstross disagree. The record must accurately reflect events, good and bad. Removing facts amounts to censorship.
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@cstross disagree. The record must accurately reflect events, good and bad. Removing facts amounts to censorship.
Agreed. It's nice to think no one will remember the bad people/things, but that's just allowing history to repeat.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/116311624371729823
We REALLY need to reintroduce the Roman custom of Damnatio Memoriae—"damnation of memory", excision of a name and person from the written record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae
@cstross The number of places still bearing his name in a decade will be a barometer of public safety.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/116311624371729823
We REALLY need to reintroduce the Roman custom of Damnatio Memoriae—"damnation of memory", excision of a name and person from the written record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae
Nah. I want to shame these MAGA bastards forever with what they've done to this country.
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@cstross @pluralistic @Remittancegirl I look forward to a future in which the only mention of Trump's name in the media comes in the form of headlines that say "Donald Trump still dead”.
@octows @cstross @pluralistic @Remittancegirl
SNL Generalissimo Francisco Franco style...
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@cstross agreed, but could we start with the French custom of guillotine?
@allpoints Yup!
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Didn't work for Herostartus (burned the Artemision) or Akhenaten (tried monotheism in Egypt), or... well, lots of examples.
@davidbrin has periodically suggested, instead of suppressing their names, we legally force a name change to an embarrassing obscenity & require its use in public. (Real name can be in a footnote, but only one time per publication, with limits on type size.)
Just *imagine* the contest to propose a new name for Trump.
@weekend_editor @cstross @davidbrin
Santorum...
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/116311624371729823
We REALLY need to reintroduce the Roman custom of Damnatio Memoriae—"damnation of memory", excision of a name and person from the written record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae
@cstross I've often thought that people with the same name as disgraced politicians (anyone else called "Liz Truss", for instance) should have the fee for a deed poll waived by the government. Their very name has been made a liability through no fault of their own.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/116311624371729823
We REALLY need to reintroduce the Roman custom of Damnatio Memoriae—"damnation of memory", excision of a name and person from the written record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae
@cstross And if we all stopped posting his name - in whatever mood context - guess what, he'd be forgotten PDQ.
Problem would be tho, what's left to talk about at the water cooler?
