A spotless mind is nothing to be aspired to, neither personally nor collectively, since everything is built upon these spots. They are being lit up by the truth of the moment and leave shadows behind. These shadows are complex, they change and overlap constantly, alienating from what they represented originally. As generations pass, they are being passed on - our reality stabilizes itself by translating them into environments more permanent than their sources. But now this is taking a different shape: In a world of abundant information and rapid spread of digital interests we imagine a future of heterogeneity, where distinct and limited groups of culture, defined by origin, are starting to transcend into more specific and diverse groups of shared memory. If we are no longer forced to have our thinking and living shaped solely by familiar surroundings, we will eventually discover small and specific portions of memory we share with others around the globe. This will lastingly render it into a more complex, more emancipated and more diverse territory.

Blind, Jasper; Troger, Jonathan: Memory Promise (2022)

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