
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Have you noticed how hard it is to remember the past 18 months? You might be dealing with historical amnesia, the process by which we collectively forget traumatic events in the past. Storytelling is a major driver of historical amnesia -- in science fiction, and in political rhetoric too. We also talk to Ayanna Thompson, author of a new book called Blackface, about how people have forgotten the history of minstrelsy in the US -- and why that's a problem.
Show notes: www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes
4.9
385385 ratings
Have you noticed how hard it is to remember the past 18 months? You might be dealing with historical amnesia, the process by which we collectively forget traumatic events in the past. Storytelling is a major driver of historical amnesia -- in science fiction, and in political rhetoric too. We also talk to Ayanna Thompson, author of a new book called Blackface, about how people have forgotten the history of minstrelsy in the US -- and why that's a problem.
Show notes: www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes
26,205 Listeners
1,991 Listeners
1,045 Listeners
1,784 Listeners
1,248 Listeners
21,802 Listeners
537 Listeners
3,368 Listeners
529 Listeners
16,251 Listeners
366 Listeners
8,946 Listeners
43 Listeners
313 Listeners
67 Listeners