Post by Séamus on Apr 24, 2022 9:06:07 GMT
You can often determine the age of something by it's place of manufacture. It will be a rare occasion that something will be both made in the developed world and be less than a couple of decades old.
The other day I noticed the 'Made In West Germany' tag on a tea- or hand- towel.
Only a few months ago one gentleman had told me about his Berlin visit in the 1970s- the one long road through which westerners journeyed by official or unofficial consent through communist territory,a bit like the railroad tracks through Yugoslavia central to the Orient Express plot...a day's tour through the East of the city,a guide pointing out their sophistication oblivious to the fact that her supposedly advanced city was barely on a par with any other...the coach being checked for stowaways on return...
One could easily reflect on the changes that came through the years since;now finding ourselves in a situation where former Soviet,now less secular,countries are at war with each other, perhaps it mightn't have been entirely unforseen by students of historical world powers?
The 1980 Olympics was the first Games to exist in my consciousness, but I was unaware until a few days ago of the apparent androgenising drugs used by the administration of the (perhaps too) successful East German ladies'swim team. Now indirect links are being made between this and the current conversations about transgendered athletes in sport.
Had the textile industry workers in West Germany forseen 2022, would they have been more amazed by the reunification of their race in a capitalist system or Russia at war with it's former empire or a West,still personified by Disneyland as it tussles with a Florida governor that seems to just want to use some sense, championing values that weren't universally accepted as anything of the sort, even by the time of the Berlin Wall's collapse?
The other day I noticed the 'Made In West Germany' tag on a tea- or hand- towel.
Only a few months ago one gentleman had told me about his Berlin visit in the 1970s- the one long road through which westerners journeyed by official or unofficial consent through communist territory,a bit like the railroad tracks through Yugoslavia central to the Orient Express plot...a day's tour through the East of the city,a guide pointing out their sophistication oblivious to the fact that her supposedly advanced city was barely on a par with any other...the coach being checked for stowaways on return...
One could easily reflect on the changes that came through the years since;now finding ourselves in a situation where former Soviet,now less secular,countries are at war with each other, perhaps it mightn't have been entirely unforseen by students of historical world powers?
The 1980 Olympics was the first Games to exist in my consciousness, but I was unaware until a few days ago of the apparent androgenising drugs used by the administration of the (perhaps too) successful East German ladies'swim team. Now indirect links are being made between this and the current conversations about transgendered athletes in sport.
Had the textile industry workers in West Germany forseen 2022, would they have been more amazed by the reunification of their race in a capitalist system or Russia at war with it's former empire or a West,still personified by Disneyland as it tussles with a Florida governor that seems to just want to use some sense, championing values that weren't universally accepted as anything of the sort, even by the time of the Berlin Wall's collapse?
