A generation can only formulate its defining questions once horror recedes enough for speech

Evidence

It was, at any rate, the first possible moment to articulate and tö elaborate the questions with which my generation had been forced to live for the better part of its adult life: What happened? Why did it happen? How could it have happened? — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 35

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to how the Islamophobia field frames its own emergence — the questions only become articulable once the raw experience recedes.