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Homo Viator's avatar

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.

Philosophy Thoughts's avatar

What is meant by walls that were proven immovable?

Homo Viator's avatar

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.