If I were the dictator: About fences

I wish I were the dictator of Planet Earth. Earth would be much healthier.

If I were Earth’s dictator there would be almost no fences – I’m not talking about border fences to keep out people from shitholes – I’m talking about fences within a country which usually serve no purpose even though people tend to think they do.

I’ve been in places like Germany where there are very, very few fences at all, and yet somehow magically people are not unsafe. There aren’t problems. People’s property is safe. Crime isn’t a problem. Etc.

The idea that fences are necessary all over the place to prevent crime is basically fucked up. If your society is that fucked up that you have to think that way in the first place, no amount of fences is going to help you. You have other problems and your energy should be directed at addressing them, not at erecting fences all over the place.

Fences tend to be insane. I’ve seen fences that separate a parking lot of a hotel from that of a laundromat next door. Think about this. Did someone actually think “Holy shit! Someone might walk from the laundromat parking lot to the hotel parking lot! God forbid! We can’t have that!!!”?

Fences are for the most part complete bullshit and totally unnecessary, and inasmuch as no one really owns Earth, and inasmuch as they are a blight anywhere they exist, they should be outlawed.

Fences are an extension of the fucked up thinking that dominated 150 years ago during the gold rush era. They stem from a fucked up, exploitative mode of comporting towards nature, towards existence, a mode that should be transcended.

But fences are so entrenched in the United States. They are everywhere.

It’s kind of surreal to witness the farcical clamor about border security and the supposed indignation at building a border fence – something really needed for many reasons – yet at the same time the issue of out-of-control fences within the United States is completely ignored.