Johann Baptist Metz. (№ 449470)

In my opinion, we live in a period of cultural amnesia, that is, a period when not memory is cultivated, but oblivion. <...>…attempts to push historical memory to the periphery, especially about the crimes of Nazi Germany and the extermination of Jews, are being made quite deliberately. <...> Where there is no God, the ability to forget is the only condition for happiness. <...> A person who understands happiness in this way will cultivate forgetfulness more and more, because for many people God no longer exists. But one cannot build one's happiness on forgetting the victims of history.