I would like to challenge the idea of "remembering means being able to not repeat" as it realy depends on what we remember, which again depends on the state of mind. If I want to remember that my parents where unfair to me in my childhood, I will remember it that way, make the past look like it was that, regardless of what actually happened. So the question then is, why did we end up wanting to believe that a certain past was the way it was? So remembering demands the understanding of our past and state of mind. And this is where I think we have a huge challenge. Do we realy know about the holocaust? Have we realy in detail, in depths understood the causes and mechanisms of that horrible part of humans? I dont think so. So simply remembering something will not prevent it from happening again, infact one could claim that remembering something could also be why it will happen again. I would also bring another example. Aparently the Egyptian kings had different strategies of dealing with their death. One strategy was hiding it in a super monstrously big monuments, the pyramids. Another strategy was to hide - in the valley of the kings. So the lets remember version are the pyramids. The lets forget version are the hidden graves in the valley. So the idea of remembering led to the stealing of all. The hidden graves are still not all revealed. In this comparison we could explore the question, if forgetting would actually liberate us from repeating it. So, in other words, how does remembering prevent anything?
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