Very pertinent point JC about memory and loss, and perhaps one of the best posts I remember seeing on GN. I do not believe we as a people are inclined towards memory, nor self-reflection. However we do know how to memorize, the methodologies involved including via rote towards knowledge absorption and certainly regurgitation, But the corridors for such applications are narrow, and I digress. Memory is not about holding nor withholding, but about allowing oneself to evolve as I can see you certainly know -- to evolve, by carrying things that can be carried within oneself amidst changes that one cannot always stem, yet fighting for those like space, monuments, etc; standing ones ground on ways of living, sharing, cultural ways, language -- its wanton dilution etc. To never let certain things be taken away without a parallel anguish, nor torn apart and away from our mental horizons.
As always it is easy for say me to talk from outside, BUT it is easier for those in Goa to change a few things. Ex: There is nothing that should prevent a minister, or a councillor and accordingly down the chain to walk the streets with broom, invite people walking around, hand them a broom and say -- at least join me today -- I intend to follow this up on and off; serve some tea from small restaurants close by. If not Goans in the beginning on account of our much celebrated tumidity's, trust me the outsiders including the well-heeled ones will participate. In my personal work, I look at religion, sexuality and consciousness. To a large degree it is about memory -- many personal ones and others as I learn them over time; your reference gives me the opportunity to say this. It is on account of certain memories -- many of them irate, and others that conjoin with them that I am in the process of making changes in my time and how I see its furtherance and sustenance. A visit to http://venantiusjpinto.blogspot.com will bring some of it out. Thanks JC. Thanks all. ++++++++++++++++++++ venantius j pinto Message: 1 Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:00:58 -0500 From: "J. Colaco < jc>" <cola...@gmail.com> To: soter <so...@bsnl.in>, "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Subject: Re: [Goanet] misfired price blame (DEL) Leal notes quite pertinently: ?If a nation loses its memory, it loses everything. Countries and peoples who have forgotten their past no longer exist, or they have become an amalgam of things and are no longer nations.? http://www.heritageheroes.org/series/series1/australia-bahrain-cuba/readmore?PHPSESSID=ecbfba8f5b82d4b9cd34c7c10a62fae5 Finally, I suggest that to actually gauge which systems are the best achievable ones, it might be worth ascertaining which countries have the happiest people. We may find that these are countries which are not in the extremes of either Greed or Suppression. jc