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The essay "Shame and Forgetting in the Information Age" by Charles Baxter was about the authors focus and importance put on memory. It showed that being smart and holding information is good but its better to hold experience and pair the two. Also that forgetting is normal and no shame should be put on forgetting.
Revised Intro
The essay "Shame and Forgetting in the Information Age" by Charles Baxter was about the authors focus and importance put on memory. It showed that being smart and holding information is good but its better to hold experience and pair the two. Baxter started off his essay with an example of his handicapped brother, who was unable to retain information from books and writings but could remember faces and stories very well. Baxter then goes on to call this the Information Age because people now a days just go by books and internet and lose the old school experience of story telling and figuring out information. Since the new era is now the information age, the people that can't cope with all the information memory that needs to be retained often feel embarrassed and ashamed of not being able to deal with it. Therefor they feel even more embarrassed when they forget. Baxter makes people understand that forgetting is okay and that it is essential in order to learn new information and move on to new experiences.
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