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Modern science is getting closer to manipulating human memory. If you could forget something painful, what would it be?
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I'd like to forget about:
1. Sam Adams
2. The entire current Portland city council
3. Hays Barnard (?) the owner of Paramount Equity Mortgage
4. George W. Bush
5. Dick Cheney
6. Developers Mark Edlen and Homer Williams
Posted by The Crank | April 6, 2009 9:56 AM
It'd be better to just be able to block out selective current events.
Sort of like a bizarro-world anti-Twitter that would suck up all the self-promotion and keep it from getting to us.
Posted by Steve | April 6, 2009 10:14 AM
Great, then we would never have to learn from our mistakes?
Posted by genop | April 6, 2009 10:48 AM
For me it's not the memory, but the feeling the memory invokes. Once the gut-wrenching subsides, the memory is not so bad.
Posted by laurelann | April 6, 2009 10:56 AM
Painful memories?
I don't make jokes... I just watch the government and report the facts.
-Will Rogers
Posted by David E Gilmore | April 6, 2009 11:05 AM
"we would never have to learn from our mistakes?"
Have we yet?
Posted by Steve | April 6, 2009 12:38 PM
Sort of like a bizarro-world anti-Twitter that would suck up all the self-promotion and keep it from getting to us.
Twitter is so 2008. it's already a subject of ridicule, even amongst hipsters. the new Social Narcissist app is Flutter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeLZCy-_m3s
man, I love it when pop culture eats itself.
Posted by ecohuman | April 6, 2009 2:59 PM
LOL ....oops, I mean lol...
Posted by portland Native | April 6, 2009 4:00 PM
Oh yes, and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"...very creepy.
Posted by portland Native | April 6, 2009 4:04 PM