The Art of Being Old

Bamboos are the fastest-growing plants on earth. Trees such as oak or apple can take up to 120 years to reach maturity. Most bamboo trees take 5 to 7 years to reach maturity. Yet apple trees bloom every year. Bamboo blooms once every 60 to 130 years!

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//19th century Feli does not know this, but actually his memory is very much unreliable: A nations view of the past is heavily screwed by the public consciousness of their time. Just like humans a nation does not remember their past in an objective manner. It is distorted and heavily altered to the point of unrecognizability at times, especially their early years which are sometimes just wiped from their memory altogether. There are two kinds of memories for a nation tan: Public and private memories. The private memory is their very own personal experience, pretty close to a human memory. One important difference: Information stays there for a very, very long time. Nondeclarative and procedural memories are primarily “saved” in this part of their mind, so a nation does not forget important basics like talking, walking, riding a horse, fighting, you name it. They stay there for centuries, unaltered. It would need a very huge brain trauma for the private memory to be affected. It’s very durable, but also limited to the nation tan’s personal experiences. Public memory is basically the nation’s collective memory. Feli may be in Venice for the week, but he knows what the weather is has been like in Verona yesterday without anyone telling him. He just knows that. Nations can access a massive database of experiences. In many cases, the public memory overshadows the private one, making it hard for nations to form an identity. This is why many prefer to keep track of their personal life with diaries, so they can distinguish wether what they remember is a personal or public memory. The public memory is less durable and easily altered by generational shifts, public opinions, propaganda and bad public education. 

Finally got to draw him in his uniform YEH! Needed some China in my art blog.

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