@Leucrotta Forgetfulness. If we had to remember everything all at once, we'd be paralyzed all the time. Interesting corollary: 'flow', that state of effortless creative concentration where time slips away and you're lost in the moment of making something? There's nothing else going on - no past, no memories, just the task at hand and experience at work. In my limited experience of it, anyhow.
@Momentrabbit It feels like I stopped being optimistic that things could really *really* change for the better in 2012, or maybe last weekend. At any rate it feels so out of sight right now.