A closer look
Purchasing a supposedly authentic piece of the Berlin Wall from a random street vendor is an incredibly effective way to accidentally spend twenty euros on a chunk of painted concrete that was likely chiseled from a dilapidated parking garage just last week. When the wall officially fell in the late nineteen eighties, eager locals quickly dismantled the historically significant barrier, and since then, the global market has been flooded with millions of highly suspicious, brightly colored rocks accompanied by completely meaningless certificates of authenticity. Mathematical experts have calculated that if every single piece of souvenir concrete currently sitting on a bookshelf actually came from the original structure, the Berlin Wall would have been roughly ten times larger than the Great Wall of China. It perfectly highlights our bizarre human obsession with hoarding completely unverifiable historical artifacts just to prove to our dinner guests that we possess a sophisticated global perspective
