Old purpose
The purpose of his essay is to show us how information could be destroying our own personal memories from the inside out and what we can do to prevent it from being destroy.
New purpose
The purpose of his essay is to show us that no matter how much shame, how much we may forget, how much information the world may offer us, we must never forget who we are, our own memories, our past experience, all that separates us from the world, by not letting anything come in between them as if they were the world to us.
New introduction
Do you sometimes feel like you have forgotten who you are? According to Charles Baxter's essay, Shame and forgetting in the Information Age, he wrote about how memory has changed over time. As we enter a new age, the information age, a world surrounded by information technology, we tend to lose focus on ourselves, and focus more on information. Not only that, we sometimes let shame and forgetting interfere with our memory. This in the long run, could in fact take away the most important piece of memory that any human being could possibly have, memories that sets us apart from everyone else, memories of our own personal experiences. The purpose of his essay is to show us that no matter how much shame, how much we may forget, how much information the world may offer us, we must never forget who we are, our own memories, our past experience, all that separates us from the world, by not letting anything come in between them as if they were the world to us.
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