It appears the nature of the human species is to migrate to better places to live and settle down. In fact, evidence indicates such migration is the way we spread across the globe. As our species multiplied, developed separate cultures and abandoned the nomadic impulses, groups of humans have attempted to make their part of the planet private.
We have numerous remnants of these efforts: the medieval walls of towns and castles throughout Europe, the Great Wall of China, Hadrian's Wall, a wall around Jericho, the Berlin Wall and on and on. These efforts all failed.
Now we have a president and a Congress attempting the same thing, to "protect the country from the invading hordes" (the Roman Empire used the same language). How can we have a Congress and a president so ignorant of history and willing to waste so much public money?
Oh well, perhaps this great folly can, in future generations, become a tourist attraction, like the remains of other past follies.
— Tom Nelson
Anchorage
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