We seem to be backsliding down the slippery slope. We’re freshly vulnerable to cultic tendencies. There are a host of reasons for this, which could easily be the subject of an entire book. But here are four that seem to be reinforcing each other these days: Generational Amnesia: We always forget. If we didn’t we’d likely go mad with grief. Whether the pains of childbirth or the horrors of war, sometimes it’s better not to remember. “Fluidity of memory and a capacity to forget,” anthropologist Wade Davis notes, “is perhaps the most haunting trait of our species.”
