To set up that which we like against that which we dislike is the disease of the human mind. It is a disease born from the deadly pathogen known as distinction. Black and white; good and evil; pleasure and pain. The point at which one learns to distinguish between such things is the very point at which Heaven and Earth are set infinitely apart. This ethereal separation may seem abstract, but it is the single most poignant example of a wall and its function. In fact I would wager to say that all physical examples of walls are the outward manifestation of this unconscious and heavily internalized cognitive process of distinction. This wall touches every aspect of the human condition, and is the single biggest obstacle toward cultural assimilation and dissemination in the world.
When examining walls one must consider the function of the wall. One function of walls simply put; is to keep others out. Two examples of such walls are the great wall of China and Hadrian’s wall. Hadrian built his wall fo
For me however the most sacred walls are those that serve the function of remembrance. In Spain I saw a wall where Picasso painted his famous masterpiece Guernica. The horrible images on that wall served as a memory of the terrors begotten of man’s will, and the horrors of war. Also the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem is all that my people have to remember an age long ago of both pain and glory. The single most memorable wall that I have ever seen is a wall out side of a barracks at the former Nazi concentration camp of Dachu. It is truly disgusting sight that turns even this cold man’s lifeless heart into a tumultuous fireball of rage drowning in a black ocean of sorrow. Along this wall there are ten spots on the ground that have been worn away by the shear amount of human footsteps that once treaded there. On the wall directly behind them are ten rusty orange stains, permanently dyed from the ungodly amounts of human blood that once covered the concrete. Inside each of these ten stains one will find several bull
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