When the investors had Gorby's chain investigated, the marketability of the Soviet Group was finished. In the West, the school of life has given up learning from the past a long time ago. Historiography has been completed, from the nano- to the cosmic level. All phenomena and objects have been fitted into a chronology which runs from the first attosecond after the Big Bang, the cigar, the bathroom and bedroom, anorexia, teddy bears, the sublime, medieval cuisine and going to the beach to the image of the vagina, death and the fine nose of the nighthawk. All of history is reprocessed into information and made into news.
Information never penetrates deeper than the main memory of the democratic citizen.
Until we are forced to recognize with horror that virtually all episodes of the old TV series have been burnt. Socialists have a good relationship with their own hard disks. Like the former Marxists, they learned the hard way, with mnemonics of steel. To them, history is not just one of the many possible areas to click onto, but the domain where the driving principles of recent data can be found. The socialists' relationship with the past has always been a technological connection.