Revised Controlling Purpose and Introduction

My controlling purpose: The data that come to dominate people’s brain could result in a personal experience oblivion. The original remembering capacity of experience is irreplaceable, even if in a developed information age. It is better to carefully control the information around us and pay more attention to our own valuable memory and experience.

My revised controlling purpose: The data that come to dominate people’s brain could result in a personal experience oblivion. The original remembering capacity of experience is irreplaceable and need even more attention in an information age, especially on how to treat the forgetting and shame problem that would naturally be brought about.

Introduction revised:
In the essay “Shame and Forgetting in the information age.” the author, Charles Baxter altered people not to neglect the our basic skill of remembering and experiencing and only resort to technic information. Learn and earn a correct attitude dealing with shame and forgetting in quite necessary in this information age.
Tom, Baxter’s big brother could never learn to remember through paper and screen but is absolutely excel in controlling his memory of experience. His forgetfulness shames him all his life with a tragic ending without any achievement. This is a story that astonished people by thinking should the information plays such an important role? New technology’s coming and saturation is not always a good thing. We are losing patient to what can experienced as a human-being since a lot of people tend to rely too much on data information. But when we look back and try to rescue what we are missing, forgetting and shame always comes together to block. Shame should be nature and forgetting is not always a bad thing. Perhaps erasure is necessary, forgetting the traumatic issues is another way we value our own memory and experience.
1.“ Forgetting was shameful to him, and he felt it marked his life.”(141)
2. “ A proliferation of information causes information-inflation.That is,every individual piece of information loses some value given the sheer quality of other information.”(146)
3. “ Remembering data and remembering an experience are two very different activities.”(146)
4. “ In an information age, forgetfulness is a sign of debility and incompetence. It is taken as weakness, an emblem of losing one’s grip.”(147)
5. “ ...the explosion of information in the Modern Age is denying us something precious: “ the ability to exchange experiences.” That is storytelling.”(149)
6. “ Forgetting and shame might just serve, under the immediate surface of consciousness, as an escape route of sorts.”(150)
7. “ The memoir is the memory’s revenge upon info-glut.”(151)
8. “Shame comes the first, but strategic forgetting follows closely behind.”(153)
9." Strategic amnesia of everyday life, both involuntary and willful."(157)
10. “ All the computers in the world cannot remedy it.”(157)