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A Masterclass in Mass Forgetting Despite looking pitch-perfectly pagan, today’s Olympic torch lighting ceremony has a remarkably recent and shady past. All archaeologists should read more about it to see the way material, image, text and place have been expertly manipulated over the years to ‘remember’ a past that never existed in the first place, then selectively forget its well-documented actual origins in 1936.

A Masterclass in Mass Forgetting

Despite looking pitch-perfectly pagan, today’s Olympic torch lighting ceremony has a remarkably recent and shady past. All archaeologists should read more about it to see the way material, image, text and place have been expertly manipulated over the years to ‘remember’ a past that never existed in the first place, then selectively forget its well-documented actual origins in 1936.

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