History is exciting! :) In fact, we consist of history, accumulated. There is a lot to know, of course, and nobody can know it all. At the same time, "knowledge" isn't the same thing in history as in many other disciplines — you can only use sources that have been verified, and since many sources have lost or are difficult to verify (there are lots of opinions, fantasies, lies that do not qualify as historical sources) we can only describe history on broad terms.
In fact, most of History is unknown. But from time to time, something is discovered, and suddenly we can know things we didn't know before.
The fall of the Berlin Wall is so close in time and has been documented so well, that it is a much easier task to find good sources, but then the trick is to select the right ones, because even in recent times, many sources are not trustworthy. Think about many newspapers telling different things about the same event — during many years. What is really true, and what is not?
Never mind the truth — history is stories. There are many things that can be told, even if they are not verifiable. For instance, I cannot know if BJH and their concerts really had any kind of influence on the fall of the wall. I just find the story good and inspiring, so to me, it is kind of fiction, even if it could be true.
Art does have a huge effect on the world. All those people who deny that and insist on schools to teach only mathematics and spelling, they are ignoring clear evidence that people are being affected by what they see and hear, what they read and think. Art is very important, even though its influence cannot be said to be clearly good or bad, it just is. The world moves in a different direction from time to time because of art.
It blows my mind how close in time the fall of the Berlin Wall is. I choose to believe it's true, that one song had a tiny impact in giving freedom to so many people until proven otherwise haha.
Yes, we have only just got out of one misery, and yet, many people have never experienced it or have forgotten how it was – even denying now what they used to know.
This is probably why people tend to feel that history repeats itself.
Let's hope it will not, or perhaps, let's hope that some good things, like singing a song for freedom, will continue to happen. If it changes anything structural or not, it still gives hope and a good moment together with other hoping people. That is worth something in itself.
It certainly has power. Anything that can gather a large amount of people and make them shout is powerful. Probably, this is an element in the good feeling you can have when you are at a rock concert – or a football game, or anything else that is big. You are with many others on a cause, and you are all shouting together, making you feel the strength of everybody there.
For those on the other side of the wall listening to it, it is clear that there is a power that could be strong enough to help them, when they feel the weakness that leads to surveillance and reduced freedom to think and act.
I didn't know any of this. I love learning about history, and it always makes my heart happy when art helps create a better society.
History is exciting! :) In fact, we consist of history, accumulated. There is a lot to know, of course, and nobody can know it all. At the same time, "knowledge" isn't the same thing in history as in many other disciplines — you can only use sources that have been verified, and since many sources have lost or are difficult to verify (there are lots of opinions, fantasies, lies that do not qualify as historical sources) we can only describe history on broad terms.
In fact, most of History is unknown. But from time to time, something is discovered, and suddenly we can know things we didn't know before.
The fall of the Berlin Wall is so close in time and has been documented so well, that it is a much easier task to find good sources, but then the trick is to select the right ones, because even in recent times, many sources are not trustworthy. Think about many newspapers telling different things about the same event — during many years. What is really true, and what is not?
Never mind the truth — history is stories. There are many things that can be told, even if they are not verifiable. For instance, I cannot know if BJH and their concerts really had any kind of influence on the fall of the wall. I just find the story good and inspiring, so to me, it is kind of fiction, even if it could be true.
Art does have a huge effect on the world. All those people who deny that and insist on schools to teach only mathematics and spelling, they are ignoring clear evidence that people are being affected by what they see and hear, what they read and think. Art is very important, even though its influence cannot be said to be clearly good or bad, it just is. The world moves in a different direction from time to time because of art.
It blows my mind how close in time the fall of the Berlin Wall is. I choose to believe it's true, that one song had a tiny impact in giving freedom to so many people until proven otherwise haha.
Yes, we have only just got out of one misery, and yet, many people have never experienced it or have forgotten how it was – even denying now what they used to know.
This is probably why people tend to feel that history repeats itself.
Let's hope it will not, or perhaps, let's hope that some good things, like singing a song for freedom, will continue to happen. If it changes anything structural or not, it still gives hope and a good moment together with other hoping people. That is worth something in itself.
so it seems RocknRoll is a super power!
It certainly has power. Anything that can gather a large amount of people and make them shout is powerful. Probably, this is an element in the good feeling you can have when you are at a rock concert – or a football game, or anything else that is big. You are with many others on a cause, and you are all shouting together, making you feel the strength of everybody there.
For those on the other side of the wall listening to it, it is clear that there is a power that could be strong enough to help them, when they feel the weakness that leads to surveillance and reduced freedom to think and act.