Posts Tagged ‘erasing the past’

Ever wonder what would happen if you came from a country with a dastardly historical past, the history of which its leaders would just as soon want you to forget? How would you be able to live in a society in which your thoughts were plagued every day by horrific memories?

Enter a new Chinese innovation called “Forgetful Strips,” rectangular sticker-like items which a user pastes across his forehead to induce a chemically-influenced euphoric state that eases the roiling thoughts in one’s head.

From today’s Chinese press release:

The horrors of the past in our country are often too gruesome to describe. The famines of the 1950s and especially the worst of the Cultural Revolution of the sixties and seventies is something most Chinese still have trouble accepting. So while I was sitting in my lab pondering how to assist some of the older generations who have trouble leading normal, healthy lives, I came up with Forgetful Strips. They’ve been a huge success to help people to “erase” their memories and live in a comfortable — but constant — state of euphoria. The questions which they’d once ask themselves which stood in the way between them and a healthy night’s sleep.

And Forgetful Strips are now available for export as well. The company plans to first introduce them to the US market in early 2010.