One of my colleagues gave a presentation today as part of a seminar on the fiction of memory and forgetting, the phenomenon of "Where Were You When ...?" Significant events around the community, such as the death of JFK, the first steps on the Moon, or Lennon's murder in the case of his presentation, September 11, 2001. He noted the need we have, particularly in the case of traumatic events, of transform into macroévénement microévénement, spend collective to the individual by sharing our subjective experience to take back the events - in private, but publicly, on sites like this one or this one.
In discussion after the presentation, we tried to make the comparison with individual events but shared by everyone that likes to tell (first kiss, first time we made love, first loss, etc. .), and we thought a little about the necessity rather individualistic tell much more than read the stories of others, as evidenced also sites like Experience Project.
is true, in general, we prefer to tell where we were and relive so restorative perhaps fateful day, rather than read or listen to stories of others who eventually all come back a bit the same. But to make a little change, I want to ask you, to you: where were you that day?
