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The Global City Phase Two

The greatest legacy of the moderns is an inescapable sense of exile, an exile not just from a physical homeland, but also from a home within the Self. Postmoderns know this, although exile from what was never experienced is weaker than the alienation that immigrants feel. Unlike a migrant's and refugees' sense of lost duality, people feel only "displaced" as tourists, even in their own city. Tourists are like de-centred, disjointed subjects, somewhat incoherent, and unintelligible, like drug-fucked addicts going through cultural withdrawal.

Berliners know such feelings, but at the same time, or maybe they've already forgotten.