The unidentifiable protection by walls
It is one of mankind’s biggest achievements, the invention of walls. It took a while before the human race started thinking about the concept of stagging rocks up vertically or putting branches close enough together in the ground to make a barrier. The ones indoctrinated with the excuse for being unable to explain the diversity and complexity of nature, called religion, will certainly be aware of the fact that if “God” had created walls from the beginning, Eve would have never been able to reach the forbidden fruit. Walls led to the invention of ladders, scaffolding, stairs and later on even elevators. Once the concept of putting a roof on a few walls, to have shelter from rain and cold, got embraced by men, “housing” became the norm for being a part of a society. Although there’s nothing natural about 4 walls, some windows and a door, being “homeless” excludes a person from respect and makes him or her non-existing. You can’t be an individual human being if you don’t have a registered “address”, you can’t have an official address if you don’t live in a building of some kind. So walls lead to streets, streets lead to cities and so on.
Walls are the barriers between inside and outside, between mine and yours and are often used as a means to divide “them” from “us”. Although history proves that no wall ever held up to its promises, because the Trojan Horse get’s reinvented over and over, it is still the main option for people who believe in putting borders around all that they concurred and “own”. Sure, walls have been, and still are, a solution for keeping predators from the cattle, but mostly they’re used to contain the herd. Where at some places walls are demolished because of progressive insights and the urge for freedom and equality, new structures are built elsewhere to achieve the opposite. Most walls are build to keep others out, but imprison the ones on the “right” side at the same time. Surely, the ones controlling the wall may be able to open the gate and go out physically, but mentally they are trapped in the world they created. The main reason walls never achieved anything in the past is that no-one ever was able to build one that was high enough so the greener looking grass on the other side wasn’t visible.
We can (and should) condemn these dictatorial wall builders, if only for the inhumane consequences and racist motives that economical reasons seem to be accompanied by. At least physical walls are visible, can be demolished or tricked out by inventing a trojan horse. The Israeli wall, clearly unveils the extravagant measures by which a self-declared supreme religion lost any form of humanity and the wall “to be built” by the boar of pig paradise reveals just an ultimate fear for losing illegal occupied land to its rightful inhabitants. Examples of trying to keep holding on to a conquered land, the power achieved by genocide, and keeping the new founded “nation” for those with the right skin colour or religion, are so obviously and in plain sight, that any educated (not brainwashed) person will condemn it. The real reason, of course, is to keep the herd believing that funding this protection measures, by living in poverty and lack of health care, clean air and water, is to benefit the elite, with only one goal, to uphold and expand their wealth and power. History proofs that there will always be a breaking point. When the cattle have no food, no shelter, no future, they will sacrifice a part of the herd to break thru the walls and barbwire fences that have been put up to keep them under control. Yes, it’s called a revolution.
The even more deviant walls are the invisible ones. The walls of economic advantages for big corporations that rise almost up to heaven. So-called democratically chosen governments whose only purpose seems to be supporting multinationals and big investors. At the moment invisible walls are built around Europe to keep every refugee out. Wealth and security isn’t something you share but protect against those who have nothing and are in need. The world is full of walls and the realisation that the ones building them are imprisoning themselves, are becoming slaves of the world’s elite that have only one goal, back to a feudal system of masters and slaves, is just not understood by all. Just when you thought you were one of the fortunate ones, living on the right side of the wall, you slowly get aware that these walls are blocking your view, restraining your mobility and deprive you of possibilities you would have when they wouldn’t be there. This Brexit process going on right now will reveal how much freedom you will “gain” by building a wall between you and your neighbours.
Last week I happened to be faced with an invisible wall. One that at first glance could be a functional one, but after standing in front of it for a while turned out to be a “smoke” screen.
Yes, I was at McDonald's in the nearest town. After a lovely warm day at the park in Tomar, I stopped for an ice cream. (the only thing I will consume at McDonald's) I sat outside on the terrace, enjoyed a mcFlurry and lighted up a cigarette afterwards. I didn’t give it much thought, but as soon as the first smoke, filtered by my lungs, made a little cloud in the air, some angry, clearly underpaid, employee came rushing out the door and pointed at a sign. “No smoking outside on the terrace”. I am a well brought up individual, my parents did a good job, so I joint somebody else, smoking on the other side of the invisible wall between the terrace and the driveway. We both hang out against the steel fence, enjoying our doses of nicotine. I didn’t get it, but after the explanation of my fellow airpolutionar, about the invisible wall that should protect the people on the terrace from getting cancer, I just accepted my place. It took about 10 minutes because we had a nice conversation and another cigarette. In the meantime dozen of diesel burning exhausts passed by, one of them even leaving a blue fog over the terrace, somehow the invisible wall could withhold cigarette smoke, but it didn’t seem to work with exhaust fumes. People were literally shoving burgers in the mouths, feeding their kids with massive amounts of salty McDonald's food and sugarbommed drinks. It made me realize where these invisible walls are made for!
The moral of the story is that at first sight, it might seem unhealthy or dangerous to inhale a bit of smoke from a person that likes a cigarette, so as a company or society you build a wall to exclude them from your place or country. It is to let people believe that eating the rubbish they are presented is save and they can eat and drink as much as they want. That the fumes they inhale from passing cars is no problem. When your kid ends up being a diabetic, is having asthma attacks or suffers from obesity, is not their fold, they did put up a wall to protect you! Think about what they are protecting you from....
Walls are the barriers between inside and outside, between mine and yours and are often used as a means to divide “them” from “us”. Although history proves that no wall ever held up to its promises, because the Trojan Horse get’s reinvented over and over, it is still the main option for people who believe in putting borders around all that they concurred and “own”. Sure, walls have been, and still are, a solution for keeping predators from the cattle, but mostly they’re used to contain the herd. Where at some places walls are demolished because of progressive insights and the urge for freedom and equality, new structures are built elsewhere to achieve the opposite. Most walls are build to keep others out, but imprison the ones on the “right” side at the same time. Surely, the ones controlling the wall may be able to open the gate and go out physically, but mentally they are trapped in the world they created. The main reason walls never achieved anything in the past is that no-one ever was able to build one that was high enough so the greener looking grass on the other side wasn’t visible.
We can (and should) condemn these dictatorial wall builders, if only for the inhumane consequences and racist motives that economical reasons seem to be accompanied by. At least physical walls are visible, can be demolished or tricked out by inventing a trojan horse. The Israeli wall, clearly unveils the extravagant measures by which a self-declared supreme religion lost any form of humanity and the wall “to be built” by the boar of pig paradise reveals just an ultimate fear for losing illegal occupied land to its rightful inhabitants. Examples of trying to keep holding on to a conquered land, the power achieved by genocide, and keeping the new founded “nation” for those with the right skin colour or religion, are so obviously and in plain sight, that any educated (not brainwashed) person will condemn it. The real reason, of course, is to keep the herd believing that funding this protection measures, by living in poverty and lack of health care, clean air and water, is to benefit the elite, with only one goal, to uphold and expand their wealth and power. History proofs that there will always be a breaking point. When the cattle have no food, no shelter, no future, they will sacrifice a part of the herd to break thru the walls and barbwire fences that have been put up to keep them under control. Yes, it’s called a revolution.
The even more deviant walls are the invisible ones. The walls of economic advantages for big corporations that rise almost up to heaven. So-called democratically chosen governments whose only purpose seems to be supporting multinationals and big investors. At the moment invisible walls are built around Europe to keep every refugee out. Wealth and security isn’t something you share but protect against those who have nothing and are in need. The world is full of walls and the realisation that the ones building them are imprisoning themselves, are becoming slaves of the world’s elite that have only one goal, back to a feudal system of masters and slaves, is just not understood by all. Just when you thought you were one of the fortunate ones, living on the right side of the wall, you slowly get aware that these walls are blocking your view, restraining your mobility and deprive you of possibilities you would have when they wouldn’t be there. This Brexit process going on right now will reveal how much freedom you will “gain” by building a wall between you and your neighbours.
Last week I happened to be faced with an invisible wall. One that at first glance could be a functional one, but after standing in front of it for a while turned out to be a “smoke” screen.
Yes, I was at McDonald's in the nearest town. After a lovely warm day at the park in Tomar, I stopped for an ice cream. (the only thing I will consume at McDonald's) I sat outside on the terrace, enjoyed a mcFlurry and lighted up a cigarette afterwards. I didn’t give it much thought, but as soon as the first smoke, filtered by my lungs, made a little cloud in the air, some angry, clearly underpaid, employee came rushing out the door and pointed at a sign. “No smoking outside on the terrace”. I am a well brought up individual, my parents did a good job, so I joint somebody else, smoking on the other side of the invisible wall between the terrace and the driveway. We both hang out against the steel fence, enjoying our doses of nicotine. I didn’t get it, but after the explanation of my fellow airpolutionar, about the invisible wall that should protect the people on the terrace from getting cancer, I just accepted my place. It took about 10 minutes because we had a nice conversation and another cigarette. In the meantime dozen of diesel burning exhausts passed by, one of them even leaving a blue fog over the terrace, somehow the invisible wall could withhold cigarette smoke, but it didn’t seem to work with exhaust fumes. People were literally shoving burgers in the mouths, feeding their kids with massive amounts of salty McDonald's food and sugarbommed drinks. It made me realize where these invisible walls are made for!
The moral of the story is that at first sight, it might seem unhealthy or dangerous to inhale a bit of smoke from a person that likes a cigarette, so as a company or society you build a wall to exclude them from your place or country. It is to let people believe that eating the rubbish they are presented is save and they can eat and drink as much as they want. That the fumes they inhale from passing cars is no problem. When your kid ends up being a diabetic, is having asthma attacks or suffers from obesity, is not their fold, they did put up a wall to protect you! Think about what they are protecting you from....
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