It was on that day, people forgot how to forget, and as they do, remembrance went away.
The curtain became transparent, and the truth of Pandora's box was revealed.
Maybe being forgetful could be a good medicine, as nobody wanted to undertake the thing hiding in the dark.
I saw what they used to murder, extirpating those who shouldn't be aware of the truth. I saw pioneers who were aware of it, attempting to forget something.
But at least we have the right to remember. Someone said, forgetting the past meant shirking and betraying.
We were reluctant to what we endured, and we can't abandon what we paid for.
——George Sand
Human capable to forget is a bad thing, but maybe it, at the same time, is a good thing. If a person cannot forget anything, how would he survive under the stress of memory?
——A. Babayeva
The only reason why there were things pasting away, is because they were forgotten. Every bit of reality may become fantasy only in the next second, because they were not forgotten.
——05-O, where "O" stood for "Oblivion".
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The "Unforgettable" cannon describes a Foundation without amnestics. In this parallel universe, there is no way to conceal information from memories, and "Forgetting" is an impossible task - for the Foundation, those in the world at large beyond the veil, and even for external groups of interest and anomalous living organisms.
Under this setting, you can describe how a universe with the Foundation would fare without amnestics - with memetic hazards and infohazards about, how would Humanity fare without the ability to forget that which cannot be known safely? So long as it deals with topics relating to forgetting (or, more accurately, the lack-there-of), feel free to include it.
The style of this tale series is, generally, rather dark and depressed. Of course, a sense of humor would never be excluded, but please remember that these are serious tales.
Note: As with the Foundation setting, the setting of Unforgettable doesn't include an "official setting", but only a vague outline.