doug etc: i forgot to respond to this question last week and i dont feel
like its been really answered or addressed by anyone else....so let me
say that first of all the forgetting i was talking about is waht id call
"subconscious" altho many of us (on this list and elsewhere) recognize
that our culture was in many ways "created" and able to flourish by
destroying/repressing and denying original/previous indigenous and early
cultures. matriarchal and non, they shared a lot of aspects and values
that have been downright assaulted thru the rise of modern
western/christian culture.......
like i said in my post about youth culture and mutilation, there is at
least for me and i think "my generation" generally, a sort of attempt at
"remembering" happening, however misdirected it might seem. i think its a
cultural signifyer of the products of this "forgetting" rising to the
surface. past youth cultures have i think signified similar things, but
they havent happened on such a mass scale as now, and havent been
accepted or looked upon with as much tolerance as they are now (and
infact theyre often embraced by the capitalist desires of the mainstream
these days)
i think its definitely possible to forget something one never actually
expeienced, bcuz i think values are stored in a culture and translated
and transformed through time. i think there are things in our "collective
consciousness" (or subconsciousness i guess) that come up again and again
in many forms....and maybe that happens because of our instinctual need
to return to and reclaim our roots..both physically and mentally. having
been cut off from that as a culture, i think is reflected in our
expressions every day as we try to "remember" ("member" relates to the
body..so remember means to me a reconnection with the physical- thus
spirituality's promise of carnality as sacred..and mutilation's expession
of physicality)
-anne
