In his article, “It’s a world of walls, go into the brick business,” Bikram Vohra exhorts us to go into the brick business, because it is where the money is.
A fun read, it is definitely a timely satire on wall-building murmur on political landscape mainly in the West. The writer takes the cue from not just what Donald Trump says about erecting a Mexican border wall if he comes to power, but also the UK decision to build a 13-ft wall in Calais to keep the immigrants out.
The writeup has depth that gives many shades of present political thought.
The analysis shows that most walls are walling off people from overpopulated countries getting into under-populated countries (both in an economic sense). Walls solely for political reasons are rare, maybe the Iron Curtain was the only one. Come to think of it, even that one was economic as without it eastern Europe would have lost most of its population.
Population control in poor countries will make sure that poverty will be reduced and pressures will be reduced. That will not make wars out of fashion, but there will be less, may be. Also, think of roots of the current migrant upheaval, which is unprecedented and on a large scale. Think of the Bush doctrine of bringing democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan by an illegal invasion of those countries. Creating a crisis is simple these days solving it so difficult. Call it leadership crisis. — Atiqurrahman, Makkah
Wall of politics
