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Most people are forgetting who they are, which eventually becomes a forgetting of who they were, all the while thinking they know themselves, that people know them and that they know other people. Everything is forgetting who and what it was and what it stood for. The Democratic and Republican parties forgot what they stood for. It's the result of the erosive power of continuous waves against the "cultural shore" Over decades the landscape changes and people can't live there anymore, so they settle down elsewhere, and over time, they adapt to the new daily routines. They will still have memories and perhaps look at photographs, but because of the accumulation of new routines, the memories will fade, and they may not look at the photographs ever again--or memories could be artificially created, as is now happening with the MAGA movement--as if we are revisiting a child's memories from 1952. The ironic juxtaposition of ICE raids happening on 50s-era suburban streets, where masked thugs are killing American citizens as if they are Iraqi insurgents, and that child's memory of the 1950s is like an emotionally-charged montage scene from a dystopian film, but has gone well beyond that--where you couldn't even use a real-life experience for a film because it's already a reality. 

We are all refugees from our collective past because the shoreline continues to fall away. We have to move and are forced to adapt to places that don't have the kinds of views we used to have.

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A song of mine that sort-of relates.

On the edge
Flat on the floor
Afternoon light
Coming through the door 
Beautiful sunset on the sea
At the edge of illusion and reality

On the edge
Of justice and grace
The greatest view
The greatest place
Whatever way you look
Either can be true
Don't walk along the edge
Just for the view