Thereafters

Trying to imagine the future in Georgia

Essay: Republic of Georgia, Tbilisi, politics, history, Soviet Union, Saakashvili, hope, despairFriday, June 17, 2005 13:42 GMT

There are people who are citizens of nations about which there is no doubt. This fact is important for their confident, relaxed sense of self. They see a world full of certainties: they talk easily of the past and the future, they suffer no lapses of memory, no aphasia, no persistent misgivings about their own existence. Often they do not acknowledge the origins of their breezy composure, for they have been allowed to grow up believing themselves to be self-created “individuals” (such is the maturity of their nation-parents). All that is left over from this repressed paternity is a general, primordial faith in the benign power of the nation-state.

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