Abstract

General amnesia is a questionable human right. It will be difficult to convince someone who no longer feels the lack of weak historical awareness that man possesses the ability to dream in advance what is going to come, to imagine it and, as a result, to change his own future, however paradoxical that may sound. The fact that Europeans have forgotten Europe is more than the bitter point of the economic and political integration of European countries. The sense of the past is being lost, together with man’s confidence in being able to shape his own future. Anyone who unable to comprehend his existence within a given historical framework, or at least in the context of his family and history, remains without a past, as well as future. When the latter begins, and that is always tomorrow, he will constantly experience it as something he cannot influence, something alien, something imposed on him by destiny, an anonymous force or mythologized Brussels bureaucrats. As a truly powerless being, a man without memory cannot develop the idea that his future also depends on him