He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.
Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is otherwise deeply anatagonistic.
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.