Writer's Block: Day of German Unity

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thebitterguy has a good answer for this.

Simplicity. Hee hee hee.

Though, I guess some people get nostalgic for anything, mainly because they were younger when it happened, I guess.

"Ah, give me the glory days of WWII, when everyone knew what was right and what was wrong, and moral choices were clear!"

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Gorbachev reportedly announced to the American people, "We are going to do something terrible to you: we're going to deprive you of an enemy."

In his book, Archetype Revisited: An updated natural history of the self, author Anthony Stevens points out that for most of the 20th century, those in the West had only to look to the East to see what Evil was (e.g. Nazi Germany, then Stalinist Russia). But with the collapse of the "Evil Empire", he says, the Western Shadow had to seek other suitable recipients for its projection. He claims the West found it first in Iran, then Iraq etc.

I would argue that individuals in the West have increasingly found projections of their own Shadows (unconscious contents they'd rather not face) closer to home. I think you see this in a greater intolerance within cities and communities for others' political and social views. Perhaps this is why there is more of a "culture war" going on in the U.S. and Canada in the last decade wrt red states vs blue states, religious fundamentalism and opposition to gay rights. When there was a common enemy (communists), people seemed to pull together more. It's just basic social anthropology and tribal psychology, I guess.