Hormones, History, and Our Memory

Emotionally triggered hormonal changes help explain why we remember exciting or shocking events such as our first kiss, a natural disaster, or 9/11. Another factor for the durability of dramatic experiences is our reliving and rehearsing them constantly.

"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was...The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." - Milan Kundera

Sources:http://www.lambuth.edu/academic-departmentsschools/school-of-social-sciences/history