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Wonder Cabinet

How to Forget

Wonder Cabinet

Wonder Cabinet Productions

Society & Culture, Wonder, Philosophy, Ttbook, Knowledge, Interview

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes it's better to forget than to remember. Maybe it's an embarrassing photo on Facebook. Or perhaps a collective memory that's been used by certain ethnic groups to stir up hatred of their enemies. We explore the science, history and philosophy of memory. Plus, filmmaker Whit Stillman on his film adaptation of a forgotten Jane Austen novel. How Embarrassing!; Meg Leta Jones on the Right to be Forgotten; War, Peace and Historical Memory; The Woman Who Never Forgets; The Science of Remembering; Simon Critchley on Memory Palaces; Whit Stillman on Jane Austen.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:09.9

More at UWCU.org. Your best interest always comes first.

0:15.0

I'm Anne Strange Amps, and have you ever had something happened to you that is so embarrassing?

0:20.2

You wish you could forget it?

0:24.6

I'm 10 years old, and it's Girl Scout Awards night, and at the awards ceremony, my name is called,

0:33.6

and I'm walking up the center aisle, and I felt my underwear slide down my skinny little legs and puddle on the floor.

0:42.7

And I squatted down, picked them up, shove them in my pocket, and continued marching to the front of the room.

0:50.9

Whereas it turns out, my mother was one of the scout leaders handing out the awards. So a couple years

0:59.8

ago, I was working as a lifeguard and I worked five minutes away from where I lived and I was leaving

1:05.0

my job. I was done for the day. On the way home, I was rear-ended and the paramedics thought it would be good if I went to the hospital.

1:13.7

So I was strapped into a backboard and rode in an ambulance to the hospital.

1:19.4

But at this point, I really had to pee, and so I had a nurse come in and helped me get into the bedpan because I was still like strapped down.

1:28.3

And I peed so much that I overflowed the bedpan.

1:32.4

And it was really embarrassing because I was just the girl covered in pee.

1:38.8

In the seventh grade, they sent like all of the good kids on this like day trip to a Christian camp.

1:46.1

And so we get there and they put us on like the series of trust building exercises.

1:51.7

And we get to this 12 foot wall.

1:56.8

And we're given this scenario of you are being hunted, get over the wall.

2:03.7

And my crushes up there and he's watching me.

2:06.5

And I'm like, okay, I can do this.

2:08.4

And so they hoist me up.

2:10.7

I latch on to the wall and I know immediately this is a mistake.

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