Tuesday, November 10, 2009

The Most Illegal Game of Volleyball

"Video - U.S./Mexico Walleyball"
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/11/09/walleyball.us.mexico.barrier.pangeaday


Humorous, highly ironic, and yet, slightly sad. When a couple of Americans and a couple of Mexicans decide to use the U.S./Mexican border fence as a volleyball net, the resulting film makes for an entertaining watch. Funny, seeing a ball cross so freely from country to country, as the narrative voice describes the intensive security measures taken to prevent such human crossing. Funny also, that with all those security measures, no one reprimands them or tells them to stop. And really, there would have been no reason for that anyways. That fence has brought quite the tension with it, the least it could do is let a little fun come out of it every once and a while. Mixed feelings, but on the whole, I loved the playful, authentic humanity exhibited through this incident. Innocent, healthy, childlike behavior as such should be studied more often and encouraged throughout the world as a harbor for peace, fun and understanding.

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