Fences are being built with abandon.
\nOne was not enough, nor a second, a third even bigger one is being built as we speak.
\nFences are being built around the fences.
\nAnd then new fences, around the fences, built around the fences.
\nOr maybe its the other way around, and fences are being built inside the fences.
\nTo protect us from the fence we built. Or to protect us from the fence protecting us from the fence protecting us.
\nI know it sounds complicated. I also know, it is much simpler than it sounds.
\nThe outside world is being locked out, and the inside world is being locked in.
\nThe only problem is, deciding which side of the fence you actually are, is not so easy.
\nWith three fences running around each other you might easily find yourself on no man’s land.
\nAnd of course three fences are not enough.
\nThere is a fourth one being built.
\nThis one is being built out of words.
\nLanguage is being changed. It is turned into a fence. Words can cut like razor wire. Words can be put up on billboards, words can be repeated and twisted until they start meaning the opposite of their original meaning.
\nMigrant. Migrant free zone. Repeat this a thousand times, repeat this a million times, and it wont mean a human being, it won’t mean a refugee.
\nBut of course. They are not like us. They are different. A barbarian horde. We are not talking about humans anymore.
\nJust repeat this again and again and again.
\nAfter a while it would not even sound like speech any more.
\nIt will be just a sort of howling, barking.
\nThat’s how fear sounds. Or anger.
\nMeaning is lost, and once it is gone, there is hardly a way to get it back.
\nOnce language is altered, we won’t be able to talk to each other.
\nThe fence we built around us and around the world will cut us off from reality for good.
\nWe won’t even be able to notice this anymore.
\nThen we will be secure in our knowledge of being secure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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