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I'm not sure how many levels of irony, if any, you're employing there, so here are my actual not-ironic opinions: If there were somewhere a museum large enough
by gjm11 4y ago
I'm not sure how many levels of irony, if any, you're employing there, so here are my actual not-ironic opinions:
If there were somewhere a museum large enough to contain it in one piece, that would actually have been pretty cool. Leaving it in one piece gumming up central Berlin, not so much. And of course there's some nice symbolism in the fact that it's all in bits.
- GauntletWizard 4y agoMany levels of irony :) . Perhaps like the Great Wall it would have been better to run highways and tunnels through it but otherwise leave it intact[1]. There is in fact a gallery/museum with a large chunk of it, intact, including then-relevant murals painted just after the tearing down[2] - And that has immense cultural/historic value. It somewhat has the feel of a standard urban underpass, though. I don't think it's quite enough to capture the monstrosity of the wall. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badaling_Expressway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badaling_Expressway [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Side_Gallery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Side_Gallery