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The Wall
Most generations are defined by an event or a year. For one cohort it is 1989 and the collapse of the communist Eastern bloc followed swiftly by the Soviet Union. Only two years previously in Berlin, President Reagan had called on Mikhail Gorbachev to ‘tear down this wall!’ Little did he know that jubilant crowds would do it for him. It was a heady era.
The trouble is, the walls – and the fences – have gone back up. Across the world.
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The Truth Is Out There
The first Gulf War in 1991 did not take place. This was the judgment of the philosopher Jean Baudrillard
In fairness to the Frenchman, he did not deny that the incident took place, but that there was a gap between the presentation of the conflict via the media and the event itself. The limited and stylised nature of TV coverage – the first war to feel like a video game for those watching at home – misrepresented the conflict. Thus, the ‘war’ did not take place.
This felt too clever by half at the time, but does not seem so ridiculous now the era of fake news is upon us. Truth is an endangered species. It is being picked off by poachers who can sell it on to trophy hunters who ...
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