Security walls intensify the defiance they aim to crush

Evidence

Where racial palestinianization is fueled in the name of an absolutist sense of security, it produces in the objects of its calculations not fear but defiance of death, not awe but anger, buried perhaps but buried alive, the (social) dead striking back. The Wall at best throws itself at effects, intensifying the very causes it is supposed to deflate. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 641

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: ‘The (social) dead striking back’ — the idea that hyper-security produces defiance rather than fear is dense and paradigm-shifting on its own terms.
• ADDENDUM: Connects directly to my ‘Grafting & Growth: On Trees as Infrastructure’ piece — walls vs. living infrastructure; a wall ‘throws itself at effects’ while living structures work through causes.
• XREF: connects to: Crackdowns traumatize protesters so deeply that false alarms trigger terror — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 534