Fences, walls and humanity

Yesterday, at the ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Angela Merkel said that the event “proves that no wall is so high and so strong that we could not break it.”

In spite of her words, we still have too many walls, like those between Israel and Palestine and between the United States and Mexico. Just like walls, fences or hedges around homes are forbidding and send a sign of fear, not human brotherhood.

If they are not in place to contain mean dogs or protect small kids they should all go. The planet wasn’t built to be fenced in, and the best use for a wall is to turn it into tourist attraction like the Great Wall of China or the token piece of Berlin wall that is just meant to frame selfies!