War persists not simply because people or cultures remember conflict, but because entire civilisations derive identity, coherence, profit, and meaning from its repetition.
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War persists not simply because people or cultures remember conflict, but because entire civilisations derive identity, coherence, profit, and meaning from its repetition.
Memory is often described as a storehouse, but in practice it behaves more like a living weave. Individuals remember unevenly, cultures remember selectively, and civilisations remember strategically. What survives transmission is rarely detail and almost never balance. What persists is pattern: threat, loss, success under pressure, moments where coordination mattered and failure carried cost. Psychology […]