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What if forgetting is not a flaw of the mind, but one of the powers that makes human life possible?

We forget names, details, origins, decisions, and the hands that built the world around us. Most of the time, this is necessary. No one could live while constantly reconstructing the history of every word, rule, institution, habit, or belief.

But forgetting has another consequence.

When origins disappear, human choices can begin to look natural. Rules seem inevitable. Institutions appear to speak for themselves. Traditions lose their authors. Systems make decisions no one seems responsible for. What was created by people starts to look as though it had always existed.

In FORGETTING: Humanity's Greatest Power, MIBUR W. explores the hidden relationship between memory, power, language, institutions, technology, responsibility, and freedom.

Moving from individual memory to public history, from religious and economic institutions to algorithms and digital archives, the book asks a deceptively simple question:

What happens when we forget not only the past, but the fact that the world could have been different?

This is not a book against forgetting. It is an investigation into the difference between forgetting that allows us to live and forgetting that prevents us from questioning what governs us.

Because memory is not valuable simply because it preserves the past.

Sometimes, its greatest value is that it allows us to reopen the future.

FORGETTING is the first volume in The Verbs That Govern Us, a series of philosophical essays about the actions and experiences that shape our beliefs, institutions, desires, fears, and possibilities.

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• Plný název: FORGETTING
• Podnázev: HUMANITY'S GREATEST POWER
• Autor: MIBUR W.
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 100
• EAN: 9798170139996
• ID: 53687361
• Nakladatelství: Independently published
• Hmotnost: 147 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 6 mm
• Datum vydání: 27. August 2026

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