I have a pile of XMCA messages that I'm reading in the chronological order.
I want to comment on Mike's question mentioned by Gordon. This is how the
past enters (or interrupts?) into the present :-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gordon Wells [mailto:gwells@oise.utoronto.ca]
> Sent: Friday, October 23, 1998 6:44 PM
> To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu
> Subject: Remembering the future and the telso of development
>
>
> I thought I posted this a week ago - but perhaps I didn't!
>
> Mike's question: "why does the future enter into remembering"? has
> connected with two other threads for me. The first is Mike's own example
> of the parents who imagine a future for their newborn son or daughter,
> based on their own life experiences, and then act in the present with that
> "remembered" future in view.
>
My parents were afraid to change their jobs because they knew that the size
of their pension would depend of number years that they spent with one job.
When they retired the Soviet Union collapsed together with their pensions
and rewards for working on one place. I remember that they criticized me
for changing jobs during my early teaching career in the Soviet Union.
However, I do not think that this example is a good illustration of one
"remembering future" but rather one "knowing future." For me, "the future
enter into remembering" when I'm saying that I was right and my parents were
wrong -- the consecutive events change the meaning of the past events.
What do you think?
Eugene
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