We see it in the 100k 'creative writing' scams..
Big Fat Professors eating to they burst..
Whereas..
In Plato's Phaedrus. Socrates tells a myth about the Egyptian god Theuth (Thoth), who invents writing and presents it to King Thamus as a pharmakon for memory - a recipe or remedy. Thamus refuses the gift, and his objection is the line: writing won't produce memory (mnēmē, the living capacity) but only reminding (hypomnēsis, the external prompt). People will stop exercising recollection from within and rely on marks made from without. They'll seem wise without being wise - carrying the appearance of knowledge without the thing itself. So not "forget how to remember" exactly, but "mistake having-the-record for having-the-knowledge."
Alas these assholes are now in ascendancy and are re-writing all the laws, all the beliefs, all the historical conventions of Ireland - spoken or not - Dublin gobshites.
So is it 'muon' in a decaying isotope world, or what?
What really does decay? I remember shit I should not - this is just Tyrone / the North since the Freestaters woke up one day and forgot everything they were afraid of, courtesy of DeValera "that half caste jew"..
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