ON A LARGE SCALE...SOME THINGS WE NEED TO REMEMBER. AND THEN THERE ARE SOME THINGS WE REALLY DO NEED TO FORGET...CASTING IT INTO THE SEA OF 'FORGETFULNESS'. BUT THEN ON A PERSONAL EVERYDAY SCALE...I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT AT 81...I DO HAVE MY SENIOR MOMENTS(SMILE). LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...HIS+INSPIRATIONS

A slightly different theme than your usual, but very interesting just the same. Refreshing also.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana.

When Jimmy Kimmel goes to the sidewalk and ask people questions about current and past events, it is appalling to hear what the public knows or remembers about important lessons from history. And, even where we are headed today.

While I increasingly find that I'm losing the names and exact facts of what I knew in the past, I'm finding that with AI I can recover those memories very quickly.

But even without the memories of the details, the lessons remain solid in my mind. Why I'm fighting for the right every day with my writing. Don't want us repeating the same thing over and over again. That's insanity. Like trying to bring the nuclear clock closer to 12 midnight for no damn reason.

Ron

Yes. Why do we? You've presented sucha simple question, but one that is seldom challenged or focused on for a poet to render questions that truly need to be addressed. Great choices of what we are forgetting. Thanks for posting.