When the investors had Gorby's chain investigated, the bankability of the Soviet Group was finished. In the West, the School of Life took learning from the past off the syllabus a long time ago. Historical writing is complete, on all levels, nano to cosmic. 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 subtle nose of the night owl. All of history is reprocessed into information and made into news.
Information never penetrates deeper than the working memory of the democratic citizen.
Until we are forced to admit disconcertedly that virtually all episodes of certain TV series have been erased. The socialist has a good relationship with his own hard disk. Like the ex-Marxists, he learned the hard way, with mnemonics of steel. To him, history isn't just one of many possible areas to click into, but the domain where the driving principles at the root of recent data can be found. The socialist's relationship with the past has always been a technical connection.