Building Walls, Just For Fun

WALLS ARE GOING UP all over the world. Not just Trump's wall, but many, many others, like some kind of American teen aged fad, going "viral" as we like to cleverly say these days. Or maybe the populatiry of walls if, in reality rather than virtuality, "bacterial". Like hula hoops, Elvis, or big hair, walls are going up, fadishly, each one presumably trying to outdo the others for visual appeal, efficacy, and strength of message. Its the latest thing, the thing to do. In fact, the only wall which isn't going anywhere, isn't being built, is Trump's wall itself, ironically, since Trump and his sacred long promised wall, slated to be built hard against Mexico, with Mexican money, seems to be the prototype, the role model for right wing populist wall building paranoid, racist insanity. And yet, Trump's wall remains stalled in the House of Reps, where it shall, if God really exists and is just, forever remain and die of neglect. Climate change and idiotic economic policies, such as socialism for the wealthy and neo-liberalism for the poor, are killing crops and jobs and driving millions of the world's impoverished to seek new starts - anywhere. The natives are restless, tired of all these dark skinned newcomers threatening to inundate their pure culture, and are seeking to wall them off. Even allegedly sane nations, like Norway, are getting into the act, so it would appear that the Norwegians are sufficiently preoccupied playing with their large scale Lincoln logs and tinker toys to preclude their migrating en mass to America, thus making America white again and fulfilling Trump fantasy and wish list item number uno. Turkey has a wall up, a new several hundred mile long wall, to keep out starving Syrian refugees. The Hungarians are keeping out, or trying to keep out middle easterners with, you guessed it, a brand new Hungarian wall. the Norwegian wall is absolutely hilarious, because it site right nest to and parallels and existing one built by the Russians, and is thus redundant and useless. When it was pointed out to Norway by Russian that the Norwegians were actually building their wall five feet into Russian territory,, they had to tear it down, and rebuild it - five feet further west. The Nordic wall, which is for show in an attempt to appease the Norwegian right wing minority, is only some six hundred feet long, and easy to go around, by walking a few yards until one reaches its end. This amply exemplifies the fatal flaw and ultimate truth of all walls: they must come to an end, one way or another, somewhere. All walls can be outflanked, no matter where or who they end, by simply exercising patience and persistence. walls are like locks on doors; they merely serve to keep honest people honest, and have no impact on real criminals. And like locks, the best effect a wall can have is to sooth the fearful savage souls of those who most ardently insist on their erection, which fits the supporters of Trump's never to be realized wall, to a T.