Memory then, and history with it, doesn’t derive its validity from its truthiness but from its importance as a social contract. In his book Bunk, Kevin Young writes that “to remember is not (necessarily) to prove, but memory can, in the cultural realm, constitute a powerful antidote to official history, recalling humanity in the face of inhumanity, from slavery to the Shoah,” and goes on the quote Olivers Sacks: “Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of minds.” On this, Young says that memoryf’s “collective quality is all our responsibility, and to claim one's memories above all others is actually to do violence to memory, and its social pact.” There’s a lot of Cancer-Capricorn stuff in the works this month! Not only that, Mercury stations in Leo on the 8th before regrading back into Cancer. The partial solar eclipse this year is on July 2nd and we get a partial lunar eclipse on the 16th.
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