Tag: walls

• Bad Samaritans?

  I suspect this is an incredibly naïve, not to mention unpopular, opinion, but I suppose in these times of plague, I should be grateful we have borders -fences that keep them out, walls that keep us safe. But I’m not. I’ve always mistrusted borders: I’ve always been suspicious of boundaries that artificialize the denizens of…

  gozzter

  March 25, 2020

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  borders, boundaries, Charles Crawford, Corona virus, countries, Covid 19, Kahlil Gibran, migrants, Nationalism, nations, pandemic, Peace of Westphalia, refugees, sovereignty, Sykes-Pico agreement, territorial integrity, Thirty Years War, walls, WHO, Xenophobia

• Sheep in Wolf Clothing

  I suppose it has always happened -there’s very little that’s really new around; I still wonder why it’s necessary, though. Even through the lens of my white male privilege –my through-a-glass-darkly upbringing- I continue to wonder about these things. Why, for example, do I even have a lens? Was it necessary simply because in the…

  gozzter

  September 27, 2017

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  BBC news, boundaries, challenges, chromosomal lottery, fairy tales, famous historical women, gender barriers, Hildegard von Bingen, history, Invictus, Jeremiad, Mererani, mining, need to be a man, Tanzania, tanzanite, walls, white male privilege, William Ernest Henley