Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal… — Charles Stross

In my experience, the best way to deal with such people is to politely agree with everything they say, then ignore them.

I’m trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws and meaningless customs.

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.