Walls Don’t Work
We are wall-eyed, our vision mis-aligned. We construct walls and eye them, while simultaneously looking away. My eyes hurt just thinking about it. We’ve lost our depth perception. It’s a pathetic, futile thing (and a profound forgetting of history) to engage in wall building. But it’s something to do, and there are hatreds to be stoked, fears to be placated, monies to be gathered. Shakespeare used the term “wall-eyed” to express reproach, metaphorically extending the literal misalignment of the eye’s…