patina

an old myth - lose the past and lose the present or the right to the future

who do we think we are - heidegger?

The past is always as revealed within the present. The past then is what the present reforges - it is the presents creation of itself in mirror. It is the bottom we make

it covers then a multiple of sins and inaccuracies, imblicities and unjustices - all of which are somehow given value in this all too living past.

The future we want is the justified in the past. It becomes our place our forging ground for that future we feel we deserve. The game of rememberance is never learning. History has nothing to teach- it rather endlessly justifies. We rob the past of that which we feel we need, that which expresses and castrate feeling in the present, wrapping them up in rather vapid passions.

Forget the past - not a your peril but as your power. That is forget that it is the past, in understanding it. Understand not what happened but the uncertianity and other pasts of the happening. the past really remembered in then the hub of uncertainity that allows us to understand fears in the present, and the fear we all have that actually we have no right to a future or at least no ability to command one.

Perhaps then the mantra should be ' Forget the past, in the memory of other resents accorded their dignity, and live in the consequences'-

and perhaps never forget the past as such, but but critical never take it seriously - for that way stupidity lies.