About founding scenes


Every group of people reunited in the borders of a country have a founding scene, coming with their founding figures. For some it is a fight against social injustice, irradiated by knowledge (France), for others it is taking their destiny in one's hand and renovating whatever was considered "normal" until then (United States). 

For Romanians, it's all about resistance and resilience. Not active resistance, but passive, ironical, coming from the strong belief that "they have always been there and they will always be there", like in the times when Romans invaded "their" piece of land, when the Huns and the Mongols came by as well - leaving behind a new bloodline, when the Turks appeared, etc. 

Don't get me wrong, some peopleactively fought against all those invasions. But the masses knew they had to protect themselves inwardly in order to ensure a future. Therefore these people are ones of the most stoic and resilient I have ever met. Of course, they mustn't be the only ones- as there are several stories like theirs around the world.

However - speaking of what I know - this has engendered in Romanian territory some oral creations that hold within them such a sadness and passive resistance that I never understood when I was little. Why in the world someone - who would be warned by their allies (instincts, experience, etc) would willingly - or at least passively wait for them to get him killed out of jealousy?  Well, it's not because they are stupid. It's because they know that their flesh is a bridge to the future. That their creation is there to stay, be that a song, a dream, or preserving nature. That nature and history is a cycle and that their duty is to continue existing. 

Unlike Cioran, I don't think that Romania is a small culture. I think it is a "niche" one, meaning that it represents a very very small door to access universality. Unlike French culture, whose great aspiration is to evangelize the whole world, therefore to change it, Romania is "just" an entry point (as good as any other) to the "whole world".

How about your culture ? What is its founding scene? Do you identify yourself with it or on the contrary, you try to escape it ?

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