Mareh Makom

Egypt

• Egypt: When the empire turns human beings into machines
  What happens when a growing system matters more than the people who make it up?
  And they embittered their lives with hard labor, with mortar and bricks, and with every kind of work in the field—all the labor they ruthlessly imposed upon them.
• Egypt: The journey from the narrows of speech to the freedom of voice
  What happens when words choke in the narrows between the mind and the heart?
  for Egypt is the aspect of the narrowness of the throat... which was the essence of the Egyptian exile, that speech was in exile.
• Egypt: When work becomes a closed loop of meaninglessness
  Are you working to live, or are you trapped in a loop that leads nowhere?
  I think that the prisoner would hang himself after a few days or commit a thousand crimes in order to die, just to be freed from such humiliation, shame, and torture.
• Egypt: The pyramids built on the backs of slaves—what is the true price of eternity?
  Does our awe of great monuments justify forgetting those who died building them?
  The modernized megamachine [the vast socio-technological structure in which human beings operate as components in a large machine] has reproduced all the early features of the ancient form by pyramid building on an even larger scale.
• Egypt: The iron furnace from which we were born
  Can suffering be turned into gold?
  And you must love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.