Friedrich Nietzsche, in his seminal work 'On the Use and Abuse of History for Life,' emphasized the importance of forgetting as a fundamental component for achieving a fulfilling and meaningful life. He observed that "a person who did not possess the power of forgetting at all...would be condemned to see everywhere a coming into being. Such a person no longer believes in his own being, no longer believes in himself...He will, like the true pupil of Heraclitus, finally hardly dare any more to lift his finger."
He believed that forgetting was more than just the act of getting rid of something; it was an important way for people to move on from past transgressions, making room for new opportunities. Nietzsche subscribed to the belief that a person who fails to forget is like a sheep that eats, rests, and digests without knowing what yesterday or today is. After all, a man without the ability to forget, as Ireneo Funes from Jorge Luis Borges's short story Funes the Memorious would remind us, is one who lives the past continuously and never the present, incapable of generalities and abstraction, destined to live an intolerable existence.
From this perspective, knowing that everything you do and say is stored forever in the digital realm makes the ability to forget a liberating endeavor. It gives people the power to take back control of their stories and get rid of the digital clutter that might limit them.
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