At de Lange asked:
>Would you say that, in a restricted sense, German people are also
>experiencing since the fall of the wall a phase of plasmodial
>organisation by trying to let one Germany emerge from the former
>West and East divisions of Germany?
May be for a few month, such a plasmodial phase existed, but it couldn't
evolve to new emergences. It was too clear, that the western system was
the "good" one and the easteners were too weak and not enough time was
given to express their unease with the western system, they didn't
understand. The majority in eastern germans just hoped to participate in
the wealth of the west: We (west) wanted to keep our structure and they
(east) also wanted our structure! This is a major difference to South
Africa I guess.
It was the intuition of Helmut Kohl, that the process of unification must
be forced as fast as possible. With this, his regime could easily be
transferred to the east without change that could question his power. You
can also say, that entropy production has been cooled down as fast as
possible. Kohl is a conservative and as such a master in avoiding entropy
production - giving the people of a wealthy nation the feeling of safety
(timeless wealth for all). Thus only very little has been learnt. There
was a chance, but also a risk. No risk for western Germany was one rule of
the unification.
Liebe Gruesse,
Winfried
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