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Reply to "19-year-old councillor plans to return Georgetown to its golden days"

Gilbakka posted:
Baseman posted:
VishMahabir posted:
Gilbakka posted:

@Former Member

Gilbakka is happy to disappoint you. Socialists & dialectics are inseparable. What happens in society today stems from what happened in the past. What will happen in future depends on what happens presently. Gilbakka takes the long view of history.

I believe Guyana's Golden Age came and left us during the 18th century. It came in Essequibo and left in Berbice. It started with Laurens Storm van Gravesande and ended gloriously with Cuffy, Atta & Accabre. 

Guyana's Golden Age was the birthing, growing and naming of countless communities. A time of pioneering, trailblazing, battling heroically and victoriously against Nature.

Guyana's Golden Age was the best of times; it was the worst of times too. It was a time of laying foundations that keep serving Guyanese up to now --- seawalls, roads, canals, forts etc.

It was a time of slavery and a time of freedom. 1763 witnessed the Caribbean's first slave revolution. Slavery & revolt, the clash of opposites, ie one dimension of dialectics. 

By the time East Indians arrived in 1838 Guyana's Golden Age was already history.

Gilly,

Your historical and dialectical materialism interpretation of Guyanese history aside, your Golden Age takes us way back in time...to a very dark age in time when chattel slavery was in full display and when the humanity of some were denied.

Yours was a Golden Age for the Europeans, not for people of color. 

Is there nothing in your contemporary lifetime that reminds you of Guyana's "golden days" ?.  

This is not what 19-year-old Ayodele Roache has in mind

....your experience living in Guyana must have approximated to the Hobbesian state of nature...where life for you must have been "short, brutish, and full of misery".

 Hard to believe...

That Banna Gilly give some strange introspection!  His best days in Guyana was 200 years prior to his birth, and he sees the best days of humanity is a socialist utopia maybe 200 years from now. 

There is a lose marble somewhere!

Socialists are students of history. Gilly is a student of Guyanese history and world history. I would be dishonest to assert that Guyana's Golden Age occurred during the past 67 years, ie during my lifetime. I lived only 15 years under colonialism, from 1951 to 1966. Nothing golden there. I read intensively and extensively every day and derive my knowledge & opinions therefrom. 

Not doubting your feelings, but why you believe it was the best 200 years prior to your existence?

Baseman
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