More people are alive today than have lived and died since Adam’s day. Most people living today were born after 1950 the overwhelming majority was born after 1940. In a May 1992 Letter to Pro-Lifers, Phyllis Schlafly quoted a woman leader in a Republican proabortion group who argued thus: “What about natural rock formations that look like people? Just because something is formed in that shape (i.e., a fetus, an unborn child) does not necessarily mean that that’s what it is.” In this statement, the amnesia means a loss of logic and common sense, a very common failing today.

Social amnesia and drunkenness in a social order produce mindless thinking. People today, by their false thinking, have cut themselves off from the past and the present - and therefore from the future. This is what is happening to mankind today, especially to Western man.ĭrunkenness has a somewhat similar effect, except that it cuts off a man from the present and leaves him disoriented. Amnesia is a loss of memory: it reduces a man to a mindless state because he remembers nothing and does not know who he is. In the 1930s, there was discrimination against the blacks that no longer exists, but there was also a different character. Today, most immigrants get work on their first day in the United States (p. Mead, in The New Politics of Poverty (1992), that in the depression of the 1930s, there was no problem among blacks because they were ready to work, and they were ready to take lowest wages (pp. Consider, for example, this statement by Lawrence M. People have no real past, because it has been supplanted by fiction. This is deliberate amnesia, and it is very prevalent.ĭeliberate amnesia leads to social amnesia on a massive scale. Virtually all chose to make “politically correct” statements and to disregard the very clear evidence presented at the trial. The cops tried to subdue him with an electric stunner, but he was unaffected, something cops rarely see.” These facts and more were available to Governor Pete Wilson and President George Bush, as well as to all the media and to politicians. Did he have a gun? He wouldn’t let himself be frisked. The police had good reason to think King was on PCP, even though he was simply an alcohol consumer of historic proportions. When finally stopped, Rockwell reported, “the muscular, 250-pound perpetrator danced maniacally, made sexual advances toward a policewoman and refused to do as he was told. King, with a criminal record, raced through residential areas at 115 mph. called attention to in his “Opposing View” in the Apedition of USA Today: Rodney G.

Consider, for example, the facts that Llewellyn H. The problem of social amnesia is compounded by the deliberate amnesia of much of the media. I was reminded of this recently as I listened to the comments in the media by black and white leaders with respect to the rioting and looting that erupted first in Los Angeles over the Rodney King case. It was, I believe, Pitirim Sorokin who years ago warned people of the growing social amnesia, the loss of the past, and the growing ignorance of the foundations of our civilization.

Social amnesia theater