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much more important to amputate the legitimacy
of individual histories confirmed by said history.
Voluntary forgetting and the inability to remember seem interrelated in this process. Individual
history needs narratives to contextualize it. Without that story, the telling of an individual event is
anecdotal; rejecting memory is stimulated by the
absence of History. It is a much more trustworthy
story because personal experience can reconnect
it with its transcendent nature.
Forgetfulness does not come about by decree, but
social and political practices can expect it. Thus,
a whole series of procedures is set into motion to
achieve it, which produces dishonest and inhuman results. A denunciation of the methods forgetfulness uses to establish itself are not unique to
only a anti-democratic society like the one in
Cuba; it a