Good evening! Max and Millie and me have returned home successfully, from our nightly mission, through the backdoor of our quaint bungalow. The news of the day is optimistic about the ferocity of Hurricane Irma's record setting strength, diminishing it's path of destruction through Florida, from a Category 4 down to a Category 2.
I was watching a PBS documentary about Hadrian's Wall, last week and thought about Trump's Wall. I thought about it again tonight, as I watched the Weather Channel's map of the course of Hurricane Irma crossing Florida's border on it's way up through other northern state lines, on it's path.
Throughout the geopolitical history of the world, there have been various leaders who used the crude hammers of their political toolbox to enforce an illusion of national security by building walls. Normally, walls have 3 purposes,(besides painting) they are built to stake out territory; separate warring factions or to prohibit and exclude undesired elements from free entry.
Regardless of reasons used to rally justification for the construction and subsequent associated costs involved, there's always a tacit and insulting suggestion of superiority, by nations building border fences and massively intimidating walls.
To quote author Michael Dear of Politico Magazine, "Walls are a blunt instrument of diplomacy." The rude intentions and unsophisticated meaning of daunting constructs of high fences and cemented walls, is not lost, even on the dullest wit or impoverished person.
The final and most important question remains: "Do walls work?"
The answer depends on what is the intended purpose? If the purpose is to garner votes at a political rally, by offering a quick fix solution to scared, insecure people who need comforting against the perceived "boogeymen" of their dark imagination, then proposing useless and expensive walls work well. The problem here lies in the daylight of truth. Who wants to live in a "police state"? Walls are not a practical solution to hundreds of years of complex problems, like immigration.
The truth is that walls alienate people from productive dialogues of diplomacy, that can yield peace through compromise. Wise men don't waste the treasury of their people on useless walls. Wise men... "Build A Bridge".
"Good Night, Shalom and Sweet Dreams!"
"Boner Appertite!"
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