What Wall? Where is it? It's time to think about everything in a new light...

Excerpt from a larger article published in the New York Times HERE

"It’s far too easy to imagine a situation where our freedom of movement still depends entirely on what has happened to us in the past and what kind of information we’re willing to give up in return. Consider the expedited screening process of the Global Entry Program for traveling to the United States. It’s a shortcut — reserved for people who can get it — that doesn’t do away with borders. It just makes them easier to cross, and therefore less visible.

That serves the modern nation-state very well. Because in the end, what are borders supposed to protect us from? The answer used to be other states, empires or sovereigns. But today, relatively few land borders exist to physically fend off a neighboring power, and countries even cooperate to police the borders they share. Modern borders exist to control something else: the movement of people. They control us.

Those are the walls we should be fighting over."

Follow up reading, HERE

The above link goes to an article on The Nation, and is an interview with Dr. Wendy Brown, UC Berkeley Political Science Professor.