Long TextExercise 60 of 81

Among the many unexamined assumptions that govern contemporary attitudes toward the past, perhaps none is so firmly entrenched as the conviction that remembering is an unqualified good and forgetting a regrettable deficiency. We memorialise, we archive, we digitise; we treat the preservation of information as a moral…

• What widely held belief does the writer challenge at the outset of the passage?
• What does the example of hyperthymesia patients illustrate?