[Closed] Berlin: artists and dog eggs.... (eine Hasstirade)

edit..... sorry for the lack of RanDOM Capitils and Speeling mistakes

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spent the weekend in Berlin with friends as one of them was turning a year older.

nice enough time, but i am always so relieved to leave that place....

people often seem surprised when they ask me if i like Berlin and my response is "no".

not only are the roads and pavements in a right mess, but there is dog shit every 20 yards that you have to gracefully dodge, homeless piss-heads hold open the doors to the cash machines and expect money for their service and the place is full of "artisits" and people with an alternative lifestyle complaining that the place is getting too expensive.

met one guy at the party. asked him what he does. "I'm an artist"
"cool", i reply, "what do you do?"
"I'm currently on MkVII of a project to create an everlasting bubble"
"what?"
"a box, a little like a microwave, that has inside it a bubble"
"what? why?"
"so that the bubble lasts forever"
"but why?"
"it's like, an everlasting bubble"
"but why?"

he couldn't explain himself, but he did go on to say that it was really hard being an artist.

and then another guy i met was a "Klang Künstler", or noise artist. we went on to explain that after four years of study he takes everyday objects and makes them play a sound, takes that soun and layers it over him playing the piano.
he played a piece of his "work" to us. some grating noise that he had "created" by making a wind mill out of Ikea coat hangers with some broken up piano over the top.
and the thing that got me was how serious every else was taking this.... it noise made me angry/nervous as it was so broken and disjointed. where as others were nodding in appreciation. WTF?

now what i do not understand is that these people expect to make a living from this..... and they complain that they haven't any money. why not get a proper job or if that is too much for you produce something that people want to buy?

same with friends of ours.... social workers more or less. and they complain that they do not get paid enough and that they can only affor to live in Berlin. rubbish... you get paid peanuts in Berlin because it costs relatively few peanuts to live there compared to other (nicer?) cities.

if you don't like it, change. do something more constructive where your potential earnings are higher. quit bleating about how unfair it is that friends of yours have nice things that you can only dream of.

Berlin seems to attract those that don't want to work, don't want to be part of main stream society. every tries to be so different that they are essentially the same.

i'm going to limit myself to two social Berlin trips a year. am there quite often for work, but i'm getting compensated for my anger so it's more stomachable....

love Munich, hate Berlin.