Use when diagnosing why people accept conditions against their interest — ask what they've been made to forget. Use when the goal is awakening or liberation rather than accumulation. Use when building education or messaging aimed at restoring people's sense of their own origin and worth.

It reframes oppression as a memory problem, which points to a different remedy: not acquiring something new but recovering what is already yours. People and systems stay in power partly by keeping you from remembering what you are and where you came from; the reliable countermeasure is a truth the captive carries but the captor cannot detect. Whatever is most 'you' is precisely what the system cannot confiscate.