[A-List] Culture: Transgenerational messages

[Nadja Tesich]

cb,
 We have the  present but can't deny the past.We can't guess the future.
 I gathered my beliefs from our revolution,and the dead Partisans who believed in it.And my uncles.
Who would I  be without them.They are alive in me.
 
My  very first novel is callded 'Shadow Partisan'.
 
Without that past, erased,who would I be coming here at 15 ?
A sad lost girl who would only buy things and things
for any joy.
I am glad that I remembered our Partisans.
I am glad as well that I never became 'a real'
American.International  is my identity.
Nadja
 
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> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 11:10:11 -0500
> From: cb31450 at gmail.com
> To: marxism-thaxis at greenhouse.economics.utah.edu; a-list at lists.econ.utah.edu; marxist-debate at googlegroups.com
> Subject: [A-List] Culture: Transgenerational messages
>
> Humans' original breakthrough at the beginning of the species as that
> custom, culture , tradition , ancestor "worship"/kinship allowed a
> living generation to significantly share the experiences of dead
> generations to the living generation's... advantage and convenience in
> many ways. The notion is in Isaac Newton's statement that he stood on
> the shoulders of giants
>
> Perhaps some of the rational and emotional kernel of religion is in this.
>
> But religion just gets a bit carried away, such that in some ways "the
> tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the
> brain of the living."
>