The Berlin wall wasn't people walling themselves in, it was walling other people in the same community in, to prevent them escaping. Such prisoners are commonly called slaves. That's not a siege mentality though of course those subject to the prison do feel besieged and they are.
Those running the plantations in the southern USA weren't thinking themselves under siege by having slaves. They used hunt and capture rather than walls to keep their slaves in.
I know people want to pretend that all walls are equivalent, but they are not. A wall around a bank, [to really labour the point] is quite different from a wall around a prison. Some people of high intelligence can see there is a difference.
The wall in Israel is called equivalent to the Berlin Wall by people who are either really stupid, or just don't like Jews, and like to rub in the concentration camps and mass murder, and are hoping for a replay. Usually, I think it's both. Google has many examples: Just one commondreams.org
To really labour the point, in case Geode, who has trouble reading is trying to read this, a wall can be intended to keep people OUT. Or, it can be intended to keep people IN. Those are different functions.
I will leave it to the reader to spend a month trying to work out which was, or is, intended for the following walls:
Alcatraz wall
Avignon wall
Hadrian's wall
Great wall of China
Berlin wall
Israel's wall
The wall between the USA and Mexico
The wall between Canada and the USA
London wall
There is a trick question there.
Mqurice |
