Posted on 08/10/2019 3:30:14 AM PDT by Chickensoup
The 21st century is a return to the Age of Walls. As historian and archeologist David Frye writes in his important new book, Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick, few have noticed that a new era of wall building is now upon us, driven by mass migration and Islamic terrorism. While the populations of the West weren’t looking, walls began rising, as they had for thousands of years since prehistoric times. ... Frye describes how essential walls were to civilization:
Few civilized people have ever lived outside them…. Everywhere farmers settled, they fortified their villages. They chose elevated sites and dug ditches to enclose their homes…Subsequently, those ditches were lined with stone and bolstered by palisades. If a community survived long enough, it might add flanking towers. These were the first steps toward walls. The walls that began with enclosing a home, then a village and fields, eventually were attempted on the vast scale of border walls. Walls were the norm everywhere that civilization developed....
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The 21st century is a return to the Age of Walls. As historian and archeologist David Frye writes in his important new book, Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick, few have noticed that a new era of wall building is now upon us, driven by mass migration and Islamic terrorism. While the populations of the West weren’t looking, walls began rising, as they had for thousands of years since prehistoric times. ... Frye describes how essential walls were to civilization:
Few civilized people have ever lived outside them…. Everywhere farmers settled, they fortified their villages. They chose elevated sites and dug ditches to enclose their homes…Subsequently, those ditches were lined with stone and bolstered by palisades. If a community survived long enough, it might add flanking towers. These were the first steps toward walls. The walls that began with enclosing a home, then a village and fields, eventually were attempted on the vast scale of border walls. Walls were the norm everywhere that civilization developed....
And when they start to scale the wallsyyou kill ‘em on the walls.
Go visit a place like Tuscany. The whole region is nothing but hilltop fortress towns with - walls.
My mother lived in an apartment in the wall around Lucca after WWII.
HA! Exactly.
Well, I tried really hard to have them just use mines, drones, and Wart Hogs with plenty of cluster munitions on our Southern border; but nobody paid any attention whatsoever. So don’t come crying to me regarding the Medieval nature of the next best thing.
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