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Saturday, 21 June 2025
All Borders Aren't Equal and Other Considerations
Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere: Answering Ekpunobi (Red Head vs Founding Fathers) · New blog on the kid: All Borders Aren't Equal and Other Considerations
Getting from Somalia to Ireland takes some doing.
Incidentally, part of the story are fossil fuels.
From Pamplona to Santiago de Compostela, we deal with 750 km on the pilgrim's mainly walking trail. The bus trip is shorter, just 563 km. (466 miles resp 350 miles). Now, the time for the bus trip is 7 h 40 min. The pilgrimage took me 50 days, once I had restarted* it from Pamplona.
Getting from Mexico to the US is less daunting. It's more like walking from Germany to France or from France to Germany.
Linguistically, getting to the South states of the US is like crossing the German-French border to whichever side currently** has Alsatia and Lotharingia, which are bilingual, like LA is, where less than half speak only English and where 36 % speak Spanish.
Culturally, the community of Hispanics in LA is more likely to make a shout-out than the community of Somalians in Ireland.
I am not totally surprised that Ireland and Northern Ireland have riots against immigration, and LA riots against the ICE. It would be more surprising if it were the other way round.
Back to fossil fuels.
So many right wing people who just can't stand Greta Thunberg (which in Australia involves the own country being a petroleum industry, which France isn't) will complain about too much migration. But petroleum is the difference between moving through the landscape at 73 km per hour (46 miles per hour) and moving through it at 15 km a day, or maybe 20 (my good days were twenty, but I had bad days and other delays).
Similarily, petrol twice over helps to reduce the number for farmers and bakers, compared to the population, since it involves tractors allowing fewer people to attend to more acres, and since it involves trucks loading wheat from elsewhere to whereever you live, rather than from a field perhaps 50 miles away, or bread from Marseille to all of Bouches de Rhône and generally from 50 + bakeries to all of France, for another industrial bread producer even just 6 bakeries, to all of France, rather than you having your bread actually baked from kneading to out of the oven in the bakery down the street corner.
At least over here, some quite a few on the right are concerned with keeping as many farmers and bakers in business as possible.
Similarily, fossil fuels and electricity help to keep the work force low and therefore the age of entry into work life high. Lots of frustrations boiling over in school shootings, horrible as they are, could have been avoided, not by denying the frustrated person a gun (some of whom commit suicide instead), but by offering them an end to education and a beginning of work life. Less likely to happen as long as machines keep replacing men.
I'm not convinced of the climate change that Greta Thunberg became famous about a few years ago, but some of the concrete measures I would agree with go the same way as hers.
Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Aloysius Gonzaga
21.VI.2025
Romae sancti Aloisii Gonzagae, Clerici e Societate Jesu et Confessoris, principatus contemptu et innocentia vitae clarissimi, quem, a Summo Pontifice Benedicto Decimo tertio adscriptum Sanctorum fastis et Protectorem juvenibus praesertim studiosis datum, Pius Papa Undecimus caelestem Christianae juventutis universae Patronum confirmavit solemniter atque iterum declaravit.
* I started it on hitchhiking from Denmark, then took a part on foot from St. Jean de Luz to Irún, where the hospitalera adviced me to break off the camino del norte, take the bus and restart on camino francés.
** Currently it is France. After 1648, last time Holy Roman Empire held them, France and Germany have taken turns. In the Middle Ages, it was sometimes Burgundy or Franche-Comté. But they were kind of attached to Holy Roman Empire.
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