How Old Are We? Reflections on a Nation’s Age Beyond the Calendar
We love simple numbers. They give an illusion of clarity. Thirty-four years, and it would seem everything is said. But nations do not live within the boundaries of calendars, for they exist in subtler dimensions—memory, imagination, language, or even the repeated gestures of everyday life. That is why the answer to a childlike, yet profoundly adult question—“So how old are we?”
