| 识大体、明大理. 民顺，天青。民不顺，天当不青。 Are these what we need to think about... and what we should still hope for? You can't learn from history if the history is "untouchable". As far as I know there haven't been any "real" writing (by Chinese) of Chinese history for... how long? ... let's just say 400 years. Shocking! you bet it's shocking... for a people who believe that there are 5k years history to talk about. Somehow for this 400 years, we seem much more eager to forget than remember. You are right, let's hope we can TALK about history, someday... let's hope we'll have 青天 always... for Yifan's sake. This new generation will have plenty... but they won't know history... the history as facts... unless our generation can come to sense of what had been done to our grandparents, our parents and us. If people can't/will not see what was at stake 19 years ago... I don't see how and when we can "talk" about history in the sense that will benefit Yifan and his children. |
I Hope We can Start to Talk about History