Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

Star Trek begins with “Space the final Frontier”. Is this accurate? The final frontier seems quite different to me; it involves acceptance, equality, and understanding to name a few items that we seem to struggle with worldwide on a daily basis.
True enough these problems are there because there is a very large amount of space that is void of anything worthwhile, but that space is inside the heads of the people that continue to find fault with, differences in and problems with and for everyone that does not look, act or think like themselves. Build another wall and what have we done? Used up resources foolishly that could have been used productively for something else.
Make up lies about how many and who is attempting to cross the border and you create more problems, not solve any for them or yourselves. Separating families and taking children away from parents gets you what? It should get you charged with kidnapping just like the people that take children and put them in bondage or worse.
Justification for such action has been expressed as “We can do that cause we are __ and we can get away with anything”. That sounds like the tune of the pied piper on his way down the rat hole.
The tower of Babble was built to separate us by causing us to speak different languages, or so the story goes. Take a different view, what if the differences in language was matched to the difference in people and it was put there so that we would have to work together to understand one another. My thought for today.