delirium clemens

“There must be what Mr Gladstone many years ago called a ‘blessed act of oblivion’. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past and look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years to come hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past. If Europe is to be saved from infinite misery, and indeed from final doom, there must be this act of faith in the European family, this act of oblivion against all crimes and follies of the past.” Winston Churchill (Zürich speech, 1946) However, Europe today seems to be rather built on the cultivation of trauma memory.