June 11

‘Over the years, me and my friends came more and more to value the importance of uncertainty’, says Great Grandmother.

‘We came to understand that it is those who are certain who do the greatest damage to our lives.

In the post war world my generation saw so much harm done by those communist party members who proclaimed certain knowledge about how to organize this world. Of course they spoke against religion. But now that communism has gone we see a revival of religion and those who preach certainty again about the next world. We see great harm done by them too – an intolerance and demand for social control that infects all our lives.

My generation has seen that so many of those who claim certainty, about this world or the next, misuse their claims. They manipulate others and enjoy power and position for themselves’.
 
‘What we first experienced up here, that day-to-day undercurrent of questioning of the established ordering of things, and that imperceptible movement of out talk between practical tasks and speculation about much larger matters, became the most important legacy for us from those wartime summers.

​That legacy gave to me and my generation a life-long impetus for a more fundamental questioning of claims to certainty. Instead, we came to value the necessity of uncertainty in order to keep us from the greatest harm‘.