REPRESS: the dark side of REMEMBER. Any social order tends to whitewash the unsavory aspects of its collective history. Our social memory can be as selective and repressed as our individual memories.
“History is a set of lies agreed upon.” — Napoleon
Behind every nostalgic, rose-colored view of the ancestors is a cover-up. When we REPRESS the dark parts of our collective past, we’re bound to REPRESS new, healthier expressions of relationships as well. A hallmark-card view of our ancestors leaves us feeling comfortably safe but dangerously blind to how easily we repress and harm others when we cease to evolve.