Former President wonders why natives don’t like Berlin
Former German President and Mayor of Berlin Richard von Weizsäcker
wonders out loud why “nobody ever liked Berlin.” He means the natives, of course. And they don’t really like Berlin now either, it seems
The Germans have this disturbed, dysfunctional kind of relationship with their capital. It has something to do with the German federalist state or something and/or the physical location of Berlin or maybe it’s just because of all of those smart-ass Berliners (I’m still upset about that gas station incident yesterday, you see).
At any rate, the guy’s obviously upset about this. This city has feelings, too. Berlin was never really accepted and loved as a capital and now it is a broke and down on its luck capital looking for the love and acceptance it has never known and it’s tried everything it could to get a little attention and constantly over-achieves and then gets stressed out and then gets aggressive and loud and, well, ever sense the reunification of the city it has been suffering under the strain of having a split personality. And now the place is going la la. And then there’s all that unrequited love, too.
But he makes all of this way too complicated, I find. The natives don’t like Berlin because they don’t like much of anything. They don’t don’t like Berlin any more than they don’t like anything else they don’t like. And that’s a lot. They are pretty fair when it comes to this, though, I must say. They spread their dislike around fairly evenly.
Berlin bleibt Berlin und das ist dein ganzes Problem!
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