Memory troubles
This was a very funny editorial that I found myself to be completely identified with and I finally found a phrase to best describe myself. As the author cites Nietzche "The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time" This is me, reading books, watching movies or TV shows, learning and in many other aspects of life. This article addresses the issues that people with memory issues tend to have in daily life in a relateable, humorous way.
Now... the truth behind the laughs. The author lines this article with interesting examples of convenient memory loss and how it is often used for manipulation or to ones advantage. How women forget their ages or kids forget they had chores to do. She (the author) goes from these simple mundane examples to one we can very well see reflected in Puerto Rico, even though the article is from Canada. The constant forgetfulness of politicians as to the promises made during campaigns or their hope that voters will forget their actions when re-election comes around are the final examples that the author gives of memory troubles. Failure to comply to campaign promises and expected ignorance of mistakes from the public are both political issues seen in many (to not say all) countries and I think the author did a very good job of bringing it top light in the humorous way she chose. It is a topic often commented on in your living room around friends but rarely published openly.
This was a very funny editorial that I found myself to be completely identified with and I finally found a phrase to best describe myself. As the author cites Nietzche "The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time" This is me, reading books, watching movies or TV shows, learning and in many other aspects of life. This article addresses the issues that people with memory issues tend to have in daily life in a relateable, humorous way.
Now... the truth behind the laughs. The author lines this article with interesting examples of convenient memory loss and how it is often used for manipulation or to ones advantage. How women forget their ages or kids forget they had chores to do. She (the author) goes from these simple mundane examples to one we can very well see reflected in Puerto Rico, even though the article is from Canada. The constant forgetfulness of politicians as to the promises made during campaigns or their hope that voters will forget their actions when re-election comes around are the final examples that the author gives of memory troubles. Failure to comply to campaign promises and expected ignorance of mistakes from the public are both political issues seen in many (to not say all) countries and I think the author did a very good job of bringing it top light in the humorous way she chose. It is a topic often commented on in your living room around friends but rarely published openly.
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