destruction of the past, or rather the social mechanisms that link one's contemporary experience to that of earlier generations, is one of the most characteristic and eerie phenomena of the late twentieth century. Most young men and women at the century's end grow up in apermanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times in which they live
-Eric Hobsbawm
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