![]() But the wallless brutes and the subsequent conquerors weren’t really leading enviable lives either, their lives essentially lacking any pleasure outside of rape, pillaging and murder. The walled in civilized society got soft and weak over time, making it easily conquerable. But Frye really puts forth a compelling argument and empirical evidence to support it. Some may dismiss it as an oversimplification. So it’s the basic brain and brawn dichotomy. Frye’s perspective on the matter is fairy binary and best represented in the Athens/Sparta duality…those who built walls, enjoys a relatively safe environment where sciences and arts would emerge and thrive, those who didn’t build walls relying instead on their sheer muscles for safety were uncivilized barbarians. Walls have been around since the early days of civilization, in fact an argument made in this book is that walls are very much responsible for civilization as we know it. ![]() With the balkanization and increased nationalism of the world…there is no more apt physical representation of it than an actual wall. ![]() The subject of walls is all the rage nowadays. ![]()
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