We started at the Visitor\/Documentation Center. While watching the two movies I felt a little feeling of sympathy and desire to better understand the context of peoples lives and the history of east Germany and the Soviet Union. Simple narratives always tend to put me off. I don’t know why but humans never got out of the habit of writing myths. This historical notion that the eastern block was enveloped in Ideology and false consciousness, thereby implying that the west was not at all in the midst of anything like that and not only brought down the eastern block but in the words of some historians brought an end to Ideology brings me back to Adorno in his essay\u00a0\u201cArt, Culture, Society.\u201d In this essay he tries, as he always does, to describe the sneaking pervasiveness of false consciousness and how the slippery, bamboo-like fascistic tendencies can sneak their way into any uncritical gardener’s garden. He writes,\u00a0\u201c…the semblance of freedom makes reflection upon one’s own unfreedom incomparably more difficult than formerly when such reflection stood in contradiction to manifest unfreedom, thus strengthening defense.\u201d(198) \u00a0Adorno understands the difficulty we have today in deciphering what is free, what our our freedoms and what is a free state, what are these things and what do they mean under free market capitalism? It is interesting to think about how much the definition of the word ‘free’ is augmented once conjoined with a noun.<\/p>\n
I did also really enjoy learning about the process of demolishing, privatizing, monumentalizing, and reselling of the Berlin wall. Capitalism digested the iron curtain through a series of stomachs and valvic transfers much like a happy cow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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