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In the manner of Alzheimer's disease, television destroys our past feelings. Viewed form the present, D Day has shrivelled in a speeded-up perspective effect that the small screen accentuates. While the illustrated history book evokes the mental imagery of real or emblematic memories, the television monitor collapses memory's close-ups and cancels the coherence of our fleeting impressions. It is hardly an accident, after all, that the Italian neo-fascist leader Gianfranco Fini, profiting from such amnesia, recently told a journalist form La Stampa: "I wonder if D Day, with the American landing, isn't also the day Europe lost its cultural identity".
Fifty years on, with victory metamorphosing into defeat, the job of disinformation is thus done, a piece of deception achieved by both politics and the media.
Paul Virilio
The Avant-Garde of Forgetting
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