9/11/1998 - Ramon Llatzer

Well, expensive friends, as many compatriots, I sit down obliged

to offer tambem mine reflexoes on ours well-loved Parents of

Orange. It is time of speaking.

The Orangianos in we ask the classic questions to them: WHO

WE ARE? PQ WE ARE AQUÍ? WHERE WE GO?

Nao I can leave of answers them in I publish, for if being able to

help a little.

WHO I AM: Many that leem me, if nao have come of Port

Clearly, nao know who are. Provinente de Porto Clearly, I am

cidadao of Orange, moved away and inactive much time.

Cuando I arrived the Port Clearly, Jean Tisserand was the First

Minister. In Port Clearly I fought with my friends Filipe and

Savalls against the Aguiar and the estupidez of the Greens. We

made new friends: Andres, Guillermo, MEC, irmâs Kaprinski,

Fabio and Patricia Trigo (nao I want to forget ninguem). In the

famous night of the start, I burnt plantaçao of marijuana that had

in Pirraines, I launew to airs first emissao of Free Orange Radio

and crossed the Oiapoque in canoe with the other founding

parents and maes of Orange.

PQ I AM AQUÍ: Pq taste of naçoes, micronaçoes, the politica,

to write, Internet, linguas, relaçoes with people doutros paises,

etc. Everything that is certain. But I have 3 personal reasons

that sao of an upper category: 1º) Cuando I arrived the Port

Clearly, I gave to my word of honor the Savalls of to be one

cidadao active and participativo. 2º) Cuando we established the

Socialist Party, I gave to my word of honor the Filipe of being a

militant asset until the 1997 end. 3º) I discovered the supreme

pleasure of being able to learn and to practise lingua

Portuguese.

Although, after the inbound the Orange, as much intensity very,

it felt tired me and desincentivado. The Orangianos we eramos

(and we are) very corteses and gallants and have a proper

culture, but nao I found no pleasure in the few activities of the

Principality.

But nao we have the sufficient imaginaçao to invent a future.

Personally, nao I know to answer to the third question: WHERE

WE GO? In two ocasioes we have been captivated and

seduced for imaginaçao doutros (Aguiar and Claude), and the

two times we have acted collectively and individually in direçao

of a future, as action or as reaçao. Both cases have

demonstrated ours terrible deficit of imaginaçao (and I recognize

that I am worse, the less imaginative of all orangianos).

Another one aspeto in the micronational, on world to the

previous one, is desproporçao between reality (that she is lean)

and expetativas (that always sao great). But, we can be certain

of that the others micronaçoes are arranged better that in? Sao

more populated? It is certain that Reuniao has 300 inhabitants?

Yes? Cuantos of active them sao? Less than in Orange? Qué

made Aguiar to capture cidadaos (cuando nao it invented them):

nao used Internet; to I oppose it, used the Globe of Rio De

Janeiro one and another time.

As summary, I think that nao we are worse and sím very better

that others micronaçoes. What I want to say that is suspected

that our problems nao sao specific problems of Orange, senao

of everything the micronational world. Nao we will find soluçoes

definitive (only temporales) in new and pparently attractive

Reuniao, Port Clearly or other paises. Our problems sao the

same ones that the problems of them: participaçao, activities,

tédio, imaginaçao...

I nao have soluçao.

Reflexao to the Filipe had this more than they ninguem it. Nao is

satisfactory, but he is something.

It has helped a little?

e another time.

The Tisserand Museum
October, 2000