collective memory

We all seem to understand that the fantasy Lorde describes requires a deep archive of collective memory.

While the Gettysburg Address was—and is—iconic, the battle is an important part of our collective memory.

It is as if the Federalist Papers and the concept of the citizen-soldier had been erased from our collective memory.

But when he runs into two old friends, he gets clued into something strange: a month has gone missing from the collective memory.

Rituals are a form of sharing and collective memory, a sui generis calendar, characteristic of an implicit sense of time.