Schizophrenic Memory Decay

A pope washing the feet of criminals, a president swearing on the New Testament yet acting contrary to its teachings, a preacher calling for love of one’s neighbor solely for personal gain, a loving husband and father who is also the commander of a death camp, — all these examples point to the same ailment: the fragmentation of the personality and the detachment of memories from their context due to the loss of contextual coherence among the elements of memory.