When will the final wall fall?

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to spit in the soup of the ubiquitious "fall of the wall"-euphoria. Well, actually, I do.
Celebrating a peaceful revolution, especially these days, is all well and good. But shouldn't we all ask for more?

Many people say that they feel thankful, but thankful to whom and for what? Is our system today what the revolutionaries of '89 would have wanted and fought for? I don't think so. And I can't help but feel betrayed of an alternative vision that many people in East-Germany had for their future.

During the German re-unification the supremacy of the Western capitalist system was never questioned. As I think to the detriment of all of us. The reign of capitalism, the dogma of economic growth was thereby re-inforced and a window of political opportunity closed forever.

We didn't stand a chance. Our ideals that were not all false and failing were put to the trash. Our educational system overhauled. Our voices muted. People suddenly had to struggle to find a job to pay their bills.

Yes, we had won freedom. The freedom to obey the rules or not. But somebody else had made them for us. What began was the era of salesmen, impostors and petty-minds. People that knew how to sell things, or themselves.

I have never belonged to that tribe and I am proud of it. And oh, have I paid for this. By not getting jobs when I failed to present myself in a suitable way or even losing them when I was daring to speak up. I was not obeying the rules of the market and still today I feel a reluctance to do so.

I have always felt that this quest for ever more productivity and higher effectiveness is not an ideal every human being should pursue and even can adhere to. I ache for an alternative, but I still can't find it in today's world.

So when today twenty-year old Spanish hipsters celebrate that cool light installation in Berlin, I am all with them. Still I wonder: don't we all deserve an alternative?