a monument to progress (dramatics do a body good now and then)

a few words in addition (the compulsion and subsequent lapse in judgement, without a doubt having nothing to do with any unique character of this photograph, are rather founded in my current state of mind.) : i am struck when looking at this picture with the need to say something grand and so i shall say it, "this photograph represents a monument to progress. " first consider berlin, torn for decades by a wall of seperation, now a center of european culture and modernity. second, consider the buildings - the stately brick figure harking back, flanked by gaudy structures of glass and steel, one of which has taken on the form of a ship set to sail. finally (that is final as far i wish to expound upon this nonsense) is the stature of the three titans - looming, imposing and, as i have already mentioned, monumental - all of this set on a canvass of deep blue (the infinite, the unknown?). as the reformed cynic not totally cured of skepticism, as some of you know me to be, i proclaim not the victory of progress rather the existence thereof; there is, of course, a difference....