Psychology must look at the utility of consciousness.
在你合适的年龄读到的故事永远不会完全离开你。你可能会忘记是谁写的或者故事叫什么名字。有时候你会忘记具体发生了什么,但如果一个故事触动了你,它会一直伴随着你,萦绕在你脑海中那些你很少去的地方。
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.