The peoples are liquidated so that they are first taken away from their memory. They are destroyed by books, education, history. Someone else writes other books to them, to make another education and invent another history. And the people then gradually begin to forget what he was and what he is now, and the world around him forgets it much more faster.
The quote from Milan Kundera's "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" highlights the idea that societies can be erased from their own histories through manipulation of knowledge and education. When people are subjected to altered narratives and rewritten histories, they lose touch with their true identity. This loss is not only personal but collective, as it impacts how future generations view their past.
Kundera suggests that as individuals forget their origins and truths, the world around them also becomes oblivious to those realities. The process of forgetting is portrayed as a systematic liquidation of cultural memory, where new stories replace the old, shaping a new identity that distances people from who they once were. This cycle of erasure and reconstruction emphasizes the fragile nature of cultural heritage and collective memory.
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