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b1-66er: <Wombo>

The Artists Questioning Nostalgia for East Germany's Past https://nyti.ms/3Xs5y7f

Space Kaptain: Looks interesting -- I'll pass it on and read it myself.

Coincidentally, I've been watching a relatively new German drama about a family of Stasi officials that takes place between 1980 and 1991.  I'm strangely attracted to that era in 

Germany.

Coincidentally, I've been watching a relatively new German drama about a family of Stasi officials that takes place between 1980 and 1991.  I'm strangely attracted to that era in Germany.

b1: SURE.

It's an absolute sociological water mark...

... Even moreso for you.

YOU were on the buoy of "Western civilization" in the sea of lampreys and vermin.

YOU helped make it become 'not.'

I feel so lucky to have been able to witness it first hand.

Space K: I feel so lucky to have been able to witness it first hand.

b1: What's funny/weird is, in the future, no one will understand what it was truly "like..."

... Just like other big moments in life...

... Like working at AAPL in the past or the coronavirus now.

SK: You're right -- words simply can't convey the reality.   Even well made documentaries and smartly crafted dramas pale in comparison

b1:  You read the sentence

"...As a result, she had to spend a week in a barrel..."

... Has a little less impact than, say, actually having to spend a week in a barrel.

SK: Precisely.