Forgetting and Remembering

From How to remember and forget by Mike Monteiro:I worry that we—the big collective we—are forgetting too much already. Recent history is an ongoing seemingly inescapable trauma, and forgetting is a coping mechanism. And while I understand that we are all doing what we can to cope, I don’t want to forget. I don’t want to forget that we survived a pandemic. I don’t want to forget that millions of people did not survive a pandemic. I don’t want to forget that we elected a fascist, moved heaven and Earth to be rid of him, and then elected him again. I don’t want to forget that we threw the people who did the heaviest lifting under the bus. I don’t want to forget that they came for our neighbors, and for our families, and for our friends. I don’t want to forget what they’re doing to the people of Palestine.Mike Monteiro’s weekly newsletter so often hits deep into the folds of my brain.You should really buy his book, How to Die (And Other Stories).