Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.

Famous Quotes / John Berger

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John Berger: "Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list."

Quotations about

Allowance	Awesome	Banks	Because
Become	Berlin	Berliners	Cast
Cello	East	Electronic	German
Given	Historic	Immediacy	Instance
Kind	List	Longer	Lost
Materialism	Million	Moment	Opened
Parable	Playing	Power	Produces
Rostropovich	Shadow	Shop	Shopping
Sometimes	Television	Them	Thronging
Wall	West	Whole	World

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Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list. - John Berger