"But even the most unmissionary soul, unless he pretend he has no emotions, is sometimes faced with a choice between commission and omission. 'What are they doing?' abruptly becomes 'What are we doing?' and then, 'What must I do?'"

Ursula K. Le Guin
The Word for World Is Forest (1972)

Some people may be more likely to experience false memories. So I keep meeting my old friends just to confirm that all my memories are fake.

Today is Marcello Mastroianni's 99th birthday.
Wasn't there a Mastroianni film where Marcello was a bureaucrat who kept his parents hidden because public policy was to sacrifice those over a certain age? It wasn't the main plot but that's how it started. Unless I'm mistaking it for another movie.

so many social media accounts for a person who speaks so little