History and memory
A Quote.
History's domain was the memorable, the totality of events whose consequences would be lastingly apparent. And thus, inseparably, history was knowledge that should endure and aid in understanding, at least in part, what was to come: 'an everlasting possession', according to Thucydides. In this way history was the measure of genuine novelty. It is the interests of those who sell novelty at any price to eradicate the means of measuring it.
Guy Debord, Comments on the Society Of The Spectacle. Translated by Malcolm Imrie. Verso, London. 1990. pg 15.