{"id":554,"date":"2021-01-04T08:01:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T08:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bestinheritage.com\/mnemosophy\/2022\/05\/27\/public-memory-is-about-survival\/"},"modified":"2022-07-14T08:30:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T08:30:21","slug":"public-memory-is-about-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestinheritage.com\/mnemosophy\/public-memory-is-about-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"Public memory is about survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any society succeeds or fails depending upon the understanding of its past. Public health is the responsibility of all, but some have a professional responsibility for it. So should be the public memory, and, equally, there should be a profession devoted to it. Its science should be critical and corrective, based on the process of refining memory into wisdom. I named the nascent science first `heritology&#8217; (1982) and then `mnemosophy&#8217; (1987, when I was already teaching). My intention with the latter term, implying a science of public memory, was that it should send a message through its very derivation: not just any memory but the one ethically founded and socially responsible. Heritage does its purpose only if turned into wisdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any society succeeds or fails depending upon the understanding of its past. Public health is the responsibility of all, but some have a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestinheritage.com\/mnemosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestinheritage.com\/mnemosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestinheritage.com\/mnemosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestinheritage.com\/mnemosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestinheritage.com\/mnemosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestinheritage.com\/mnemosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestinheritage.com\/mnemosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestinheritage.com\/mnemosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestinheritage.com\/mnemosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestinheritage.com\/mnemosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestinheritage.com\/mnemosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}