2007-04-05 05:28:45 · 7 answers · asked by james 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The wall coming down was not a cause of change, it was a symptom. The Cold War was winding down, and the Communist regimes of eastern Europe were collapsing. As a result, many people were able to do things they'd wanted to for years. The Berlin wall coming down was symbolic. It showed how much had already changed.
2007-04-05 09:20:15 · answer #1 · answered by rohak1212 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well at first we haled it as a great event and victory for democracy. However, it formed a vacuum of power that was not easily filled. The world has been in turmoil ever since.
When the communists were the enemy, we knew what to expect, now that the balance is out of whack the enemy is a lot more dangerous, and sadly it seems that everyone is a suspect.
How I long for the good old days when no one really thought that either side was going to blow up the other one. Now, it doesn't seem as a matter of 'if' but 'when' and 'how.'
2007-04-05 05:35:43 · answer #2 · answered by Mr. Indignant 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was, for many social thinkers, "the end of history," the "triumph" of global capitalism.
For Baudrillard, et. al. it was the end of reversability in terms of reality, of there being for example a communist reality opposed to a capitalist reality, and the birth of total simulation beneath the post-capitalist, consumerist paradigm.
Today, we theorize what it is to have gone 'beyond the end' of history. Essentially: How do we deal with life when everywhere there is the preemminance of total simulation abound, the infinite network of the 'global village' everywhere?
No longer is destruction the province of the other - no more Cold War, no more M.A.D. - destruction can only come as the fruit of our own efforts. As a result, we have, it seems, summarily decided that the strategy best suited to guard us against out own collapse is the endless expenditure of all energy in ineffectual banality.
B.A.S.E Jumping, I think, is the best example of this hypermodern sensibility.
The other example is the impulse to 'save' everything, to create 'the preserve' everywhere.
2007-04-05 05:42:50 · answer #3 · answered by !@#%&! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Believe it or not I was on vacation in Germany with my sister and her German boyfriend (soon to be husband) and we gathered at the wall together with pickaxes and chisels from his mother's tool shed and helped destroy the wall. I awoke the next morning in an East Berlin hotel with my sister and her boyfriend, walked around the neighborhood and was amazed at how different it looked compared to the West.
2016-05-17 23:00:46 · answer #4 · answered by jewell 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It ended the cold war. Helped to ensure that total nuclear war would probably never happen.
2007-04-05 05:50:05 · answer #5 · answered by Robert and Tanya 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it showed divided countries that they could become one. Perhaps this will show Korea, Sri Lanka, and others that reunification could be a possitive.
2007-04-05 05:34:26 · answer #6 · answered by csucdartgirl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cyndi lauper got to butcher the song "brick in the wal pt 2" on stage
2007-04-05 05:32:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋