Core Concept: Forgetting operates according to precise generational patterns—personal memory, secondhand stories, names without content, complete erasure—completing within 75-100 years.

The Four Generations of Erasure:

• Generation 1: Personal memory (edited and simplified)
• Generation 2: Secondhand stories (mythologized)
• Generation 3: Names without content (genealogical facts)
• Generation 4: Complete erasure (nonexistence)

Key Insight: 99.999% of humans are completely forgotten within a century. Even the 0.001% who are "remembered" have their actual personhood erased—only their work or mythology remains.

The Unconscious Pattern: Most people build as if they'll be remembered, optimizing for legacy that won't exist, sacrificing present for imagined future recognition.

What's Next: Why people lie to themselves about what they're building—the psychological defense mechanisms that maintain unconsciousness.