Comments on: Walls Don’t Work http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom/2007/05/26/walls-dont-work Contagious Thoughts, Mutating as Needed Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:07:23 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Gerald http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom/2007/05/26/walls-dont-work/comment-page-1#comment-75055 Gerald Sun, 27 May 2007 23:01:33 +0000 http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom/2007/05/26/walls-dont-work/#comment-75055 Really interesting! Have you read Thomas Friedman's "The World is Flat"? I do not agree with everything he has to say, but I do think he has a point in his argument that the whole thrust of recent technological and economic change has been to start tearing down some of the old walls (to use your metaphor and his), whether intentionally or no. Maybe the new wall-building so many are engaged in today is a result of the fear engendered by the changes coming with the walls that are being torn down. You fear a more multi-cultural America? Build a wall. You fear the shifting power structures of the Middle-East? Build more walls. Even the Berlin Wall was about fear, control, and ideas. Metaphor made manifest. Really interesting!

Have you read Thomas Friedman’s “The World is Flat”? I do not agree with everything he has to say, but I do think he has a point in his argument that the whole thrust of recent technological and economic change has been to start tearing down some of the old walls (to use your metaphor and his), whether intentionally or no.

Maybe the new wall-building so many are engaged in today is a result of the fear engendered by the changes coming with the walls that are being torn down. You fear a more multi-cultural America? Build a wall. You fear the shifting power structures of the Middle-East? Build more walls. Even the Berlin Wall was about fear, control, and ideas.

Metaphor made manifest.

]]> By: Don Thieme http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom/2007/05/26/walls-dont-work/comment-page-1#comment-75009 Don Thieme Sat, 26 May 2007 15:44:47 +0000 http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom/2007/05/26/walls-dont-work/#comment-75009 I agree entirely. Walls will only make us more of a target for terrorism and for cartel behavior by developing countries that provide oil and other resources. I know that it is already harder for Americans traveling overseas to obtain reasonable rates for food and accomodations, comparable to what travelers from other developed countries are getting. We are no longer wanted or looked up to in many countries. I agree entirely. Walls will only make us more of a target for terrorism and for cartel behavior by developing countries that provide oil and other resources. I know that it is already harder for Americans traveling overseas to obtain reasonable rates for food and accomodations, comparable to what travelers from other developed countries are getting. We are no longer wanted or looked up to in many countries.

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