Nations and Memory: The Importance of the Future and Acting as if What Really Happened Had Not Happened

• Autores: Gerardo López Sastre
• Localización: Out of the Prison of Memory. Nations and Future / Vladimer Luarsabishvili (ed. lit.), 2020, ISBN 978-9941-9619-9-1, págs. 30-52
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Do real nations need a past? The problem with the past is that memory can act as a prison that does not allow us to create a better future. Sometimes it is wiser to act as if what really happened had not happened or to recognize that there is significant room for interpreting what happened in different ways. This is part of democracy.