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definable intent. They fired first and asked guestions later. This
is not new at all. It has just become unusual now. But let us face
it, the inhabitants of Westeros who build a Wall want protection
against the Other. They want to find the tools to protect themselves,
including the mysterious dragonglass. The wall still exists today.
Whether it is legitimate is a topic of eternal debate. It exists in fact
and exists figuratively. There is not much that can be done about
it. It is part of identity, whether you like it or not.
When we mention walls, the Great Wall of China comes to
mind, which attempted to block out the influence of the other made
into alien, in order to prevent the world of the same from being
overturned. The wall here is not protecting against an enemy but
against an alien culture. These days many similar walls are being
built, especially in the figurative sense.
The Berlin Wall was built almost in moments. Whether this
was so it could serve as a defense is highly doubtful. In Berlin, the
wall rather trapped people and prevented them from leaving. More
precisely (this is the real perversion!): it kept them from going “over
there.” However, of course, like any wall, it also protected, in this
case against ideology.
There is also the wall of the state of Israel. This is not about
ideology, not culture, not confinement (or else the en passant would
become compulsory), but defense against the alien as enemy. The
wall here is terrifyingly nonsense, even if it is legitimate, because
for the Jewish people it was as a wall that racial ideology created
the institution of the ghetto. Whether the origin of the word is the
concept of “get” (separation) or Geto Nuovo makes no difference.
The ghetto does not keep out but rather keeps in. Their wall now
keeps out—and, paradoxically, also keeps in.
The enemy is the other turned into alien, who/which is defined
in opposition to the same. The “alienness” or “hostile” nature of the
alien-turned-enemy is a matter of choice. It can be legitimate or
illegitimate. Care must be taken that the alien can be “appointed”
as an enemy, precisely when the same’s self-definition is uncer¬
tain. That is to say, it is their own identity that the same wants