When asked about their favorite Pink Floyd album, rural Americans,
the religious right, and most CEOs respond quickly with The Wall.
The rest of us ask, “Why are you asking us that?” and get no answer.

Good fences make good neighbors. A wall is bigger than a fence.
Would a wall, then, create even better neighbors?
Good question, I think.

What else should we ask? If we don’t ask, we’ll just get told.

Let’s see. There’s the Berlin wall, but that one got torn down.
The walls of Jericho – there was something going on there…
Anyone remember? Mention them anyway. It sounds good regardless.

How funny that something like a wall, the posterchild of practicality,
can become instead the symbolic child everyone fights over
for custody.

Everyone wants to make a point. Everyone has a point to make.

Pinch me. What is it we’re fighting over again? A wall? Yes, I guess it is.
I’m beginning to suspect some collusion with Wal-Mart.

Even a cell’s walls were meant to permit permeability.
Robert Hooke named the cell after a monk’s small chamber,
because a monk needs temporary solitude, introspection, silence.

Things we are clearly not getting now. Would a giant wall help with that?
If so, I could get on board. I would do anything for a little peace
and quiet.

– Mark Steudel