> I read the editorial and found it quite haunting. It is as though Argentina > had a nervous breakdown. I guess countries, like people, can lose the will > to go on, can stop believing in the myth of themselves, constructed or > otherwise. > > Maybe like people, countries that suffer such a collapes, need to take some > time out and rest and recover and rediscover themselves. > > Arthur
I spent most of November 1999 in Jamaica for an NGO. My impression of the country was that of a tremendous grinding down, something that would be very hard to express in technical language. Many of the younger people I talked to just wanted to leave. They felt there was nothing for them in Jamaica. Ed W.
