tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post2320539588552492796..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: The Power of Iconoclasm, and How to Keep It from FadingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-10330077001651509902015-12-09T14:42:39.511-05:002015-12-09T14:42:39.511-05:00It does make one wonder.
For example, in the for...It does make one wonder. <br /><br />For example, in the former East Germany, its citizens gleefully hauled down symbols of Marx, Engels and others when the Berlin Wall came down, since they saw them as symbols of a stultifying Stalinist regime. <br /><br />However, after the bitter experience, at least for adults, of the wrenching economic and social effects of integration into the Federal Republic with its richer, often disdainful West German cousins, with its different institutions and philosophies, many East Germans became nostalgic for the symbols and names of their former land, even though they'd gladly left them on the ash-heap of history a few years before. <br /><br />It hadn't been a happy era before the Wall came down, but at least they saw themselves as looked after and it was a shared experience. (Misery loves company?....)<br /><br />Memory's a funny thing, esp. when emotions get involved. People forget the bad, and overemphasize the positive. As you say, they want to reinvent the very icon they had previously torn down.rfullernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-90754366944489077462015-12-07T19:17:59.753-05:002015-12-07T19:17:59.753-05:00 An excellent, thought-provoking post.
An excellent, thought-provoking post.<br />Mike Faheynoreply@blogger.com