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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 uncertain. That is to say, it is their own identity that the same wants
