One caveat: the masses who see only the surface still, on occasion, tear down walls that philosophers had proven immovable — I watched it happen in 1980 and 1989.
Literal ones and theoretical ones. In 1980 Polish shipyard workers — people your essay would count among those who see only the surface — forced a communist state to legalize the first independent trade union in the Soviet bloc. Every expert on both sides of the Iron Curtain had proven that impossible: the system was designed never to concede. Nine years later the Berlin Wall followed. The philosophers explained it afterwards.
One caveat: the masses who see only the surface still, on occasion, tear down walls that philosophers had proven immovable — I watched it happen in 1980 and 1989.
What is meant by walls that were proven immovable?
Literal ones and theoretical ones. In 1980 Polish shipyard workers — people your essay would count among those who see only the surface — forced a communist state to legalize the first independent trade union in the Soviet bloc. Every expert on both sides of the Iron Curtain had proven that impossible: the system was designed never to concede. Nine years later the Berlin Wall followed. The philosophers explained it afterwards.