"But Noah, what if blocking people makes them happy? What if it makes them feel like they won?"

In that case, great! It's a win-win!

Good fences make good neighbors.

— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) September 8, 2019

Everyone needs to read that poem again. Is Robert Frost the most misunderstood poet to ever live? “The Road Less Travelled” also has its message missed, and not because of lack of clarity.

The message of “Mending Wall” is to question the tidy homily of “good fences make good neighbors.” Really.

Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That wants it down.

A great deal of poetry is not really understood, but Frost’s poetry is fairly lucid. I wonder why so often it is misprised?