So a physicist, and engineer and a mathematician are all trying to build a pen to hold sheep. They want to use as little fencing as possible.
The physicist says, “Well, the shape that encloses the most area with the smallest perimeter is a circle,” so he builds a circle around the two sheep most distant from one another.
The engineer says, “That’s terrible, you wasted so much fence.” She gets a stick and runs around, herding all the sheep into a small group, and then builds a circle around them.
The mathematician takes build a small circle of fence around themself, and says, “I declare myself to be on the outside.”
The things you could do with autocratic rule and no expectation that you’d value human life!
Trump acknowledged this in a speech once. I think I saw the clip on a late night talkshow. He said something to the effect of: “People say a 30 foot wall will just create a market for 31 foot ladders, but when you climb to the top of that, what are you going to do? You’re stuck up there.” then he paused and added, “I guess you could use a rope.”
They don’t give a shit if the thing is structurally sound, keeps out “the bad guys”, or improves national security. All they care about is that the damn thing gets built. The future is other’s people’s problem.
Not a bad thought. Get Hollywood to build it. Maybe they can pull out the backdrops for The Truman Show from storage. The Gibbon can play on the set for ever and the rest of the world can get on with our lives.
This project would surely be a boon to Trump’s corporate buddies hired to build the wall. They could stretch it out forever and pile up huge cost overruns. It might also prove a boon to the thousands of undocumented immigrants hired to do the actual work.
It’s just a figurative wall. Where the soil is not able to support a wall there are other means: minefields, vast stretches of razor wire, automatic firing devices, deadly drones etc.
Perhaps Trump should call Merkel again - we got some experts for walls we no longer need nor want.
