TV appearances followed, and even a recording contract offer for the song “Mole in the Hole” by Swampy and the Swampettes (he declined). Some were charmed others were outraged, such as The Times newspaper, which blasted Swampy’s “bizarre burrowings” as a “troglodytic protest” against necessary progress. Swampy was a gift to the British newspapers, who dubbed him the “human mole”.
#Define amnesia series
With dreadlocks in his hair and mud in his fingernails, Swampy became briefly famous for his outlandish style of protest – he lived underground in a series of tunnels called "Big Mama" that blocked a proposed road bypass in Devon. In the 1990s, an environmental activist known as Swampy – real name Daniel Marc Hooper – gained notoriety in the British media. The 3.5% rule: How a small minority can change the world.Why does walking through doorways make us forget?.Why your colleagues can’t help stealing your ideas.
Specifically, it’s about a related, even more problematic form of idea-appropriation, called social cryptomnesia, which describes our failure to give credit to minorities for their role in provoking social change.Īnd it begins with an illustrative case study, which I’d like to think I came up with, but on reflection probably came from something I read.
So, this is an article about an idea that I learned from my wife, but forgot. I’m writing about how it happens on a societal scale.” You fail to remember who told you something, or where you read it, so you think it’s your own. “Basically,” I said, “cryptomnesia is a term for when a forgotten memory is repackaged as your own idea.
I leaned forward and launched into a mansplainer. “Oh it’s a piece about a type of ‘cryptomnesia’, a technical term from psychology.” “What have you been working on today?” she asked. As I was researching this article, I had a humbling conversation with my wife.
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