Forgetfulness. Think how forgetful people get after having lived a normal lifespan, now go for a few thousand+ years and you’ve probably forgotten whole centuries of your life. This is actually the premise of a solo journaling game Thousand Year Old Vampire, you have to cross out and forget memories as you progress through the game, just forgetting whole parts of your life.
I read this headline and before I had even gotten to the end of the headline (“Onion News Network”), had just accepted it as something that was probably true and that nobody would do anything about, because that’s just where we are as a country.