Forgetting
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His nobility consisted in never
forgetting
the lesson of the Rebbe of Vizhnitz, even after he had donned the robe of the man of letters, that he bore the burden of those, adorned in caftan and fur hat, who had wanted to be as elegant as the Polish nobles who led the pogroms against them.
As William Coen, the secretary-general of the Basel Committee, put it at a recent conference, citing former US Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, “for those working to keep our financial system resilient, the enemy is forgetting.”
We are in danger of
forgetting
that vital lesson.
Fifth, in the rush to experiment with new forms of storytelling, some media companies are
forgetting
their mission.
The interval between a doomsday prophecy’s fall and the rise of the next one evidently is decreasing, perhaps owing to the accelerating pace of modern life – and, with it, the acceleration of forgetting, which enables potential beneficiaries to capitalize.
But it is worth remembering that there is a lot of value in
forgetting.
Forgetting
permits us to transcend details and generalize, to see the forest and not just the trees.
Forgetting
also enables us to forgive others.
Forgetting
thus affords us a second chance, individually and as a society, to rise above our past mistakes and misdeeds, to accept that humans change over time.
The irony is that many of these same commentators do not hesitate to point to China as the poster boy of globalization’s upside – conveniently
forgetting
on those occasions the degree to which China has flouted the global economy’s contemporary rules.
True, the left-liberal pacifist milieu that in the old Federal Republic disproportionately influenced published opinion with its political pieties disappeared during the 1990’s; but today’s more “normal” Germany did not begin
forgetting
the Nazi past and reasserting itself as a Great Power.
Those who survived the war in Vietnam and fled because we were suddenly on history's losing side, grappled with questions of forgetting, of how to live an unremembered life – unremembered until an anniversary like this one.
But for us Vietnamese who made America our new country, Vietnam remains home, a place of controlled
forgetting
and even more controlled remembering.
In that grey space between remembering and forgetting, most of us invented new lives.
Remembering and
Forgetting
Zhao ZiyangSo, at last former Chinese Premier and Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang has died.
Forgetting
that history might doom China to repeat the mistakes of the past; but, for better or worse, it might also ease constraints and set its leaders free.
In so quickly
forgetting
that the profession’s dignity requires freedom of expression, a renowned university appears to have succumbed to instinct.
Other models have large quarterly shocks to the depreciation rate in the capital stock (in order to generate high asset price volatilities)...”That is, downturns are either the result of a great
forgetting
of technological and organizational knowledge, a great vacation as workers suddenly develop a taste for extra leisure, or a great rusting as the speed at which oxygen corrodes accelerates, reducing the value of large things made out of metal.
Ed Prescott of Arizona State University really does believe that large-scale recessions are caused by economy-wide episodes of
forgetting
the technological and organizational knowledge that underpin total factor productivity.
So one must now again repeat some old truths that many Europeans seem to be deliberately
forgetting.
Duda has already shown that PiS is capable of
forgetting
about its lavish campaign promises the day after an election.
The aim should be to produce viable ideas, build consensus, and find linkages – first and foremost within the EU, but without
forgetting
allies and partners.
For many modern Muslims, hijra represents the perpetual movement between memory and
forgetting.
Now, even Islamists are welcoming Russia back as a regional player in order to strengthen their struggle against American hegemony, conveniently
forgetting
Russia’s brutal suppression of Chechen Muslims during the 1990’s.
Once he brings about truly modernizing reforms, people will supposedly follow willingly,
forgetting
centuries of serfdom, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the political chaos and economic free-fall of the 1990’s, and the decade of Putin’s managed democracy.
It would indicate that there can be no true peace in Guatemala as long as the powerful are accommodated with grants of amnesty and
forgetting
is prized over truth and justice.
We Russians rode along on oil and gas,
forgetting
that these resources will not last forever.
They argue that a dominant economic power soon becomes a dominant military power,
forgetting
that the United States was the world’s largest economy for 70 years before it became a military superpower.
But in condemning the Japanese for neglect of the Nanjing massacre during the Second World War, Chinese officials proclaim that
forgetting
the past betrays the people.
Workers and trade union leaders were
forgetting
their fear of unemployment: investors and entrepreneurs were throwing financial resources at risky projects without worrying about a bust.
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