Distraction, attention deficit, or lack of concentration are common, in the visual field as well other fields of perception, as a defense against overstimulation; forces of habit or automatism are widely regarded as normal, as inference in the somatic field; and the peer group exerts an influence, creating a common libidinal bond which is a kind of suggestion ... From the vantage point of a dialectic of attention and distraction, any appeal against forgetting is an attempt to dictate what people should think.