We have the homeless, we have illegal aliens, we have maps that mark the homes of sex offenders, we have electronic bracelets and brick and mortar prisons crowded beyond their capacity. We have the mirror empire of the screen, like Borges sullen and defeated empire of the mirror, but we are already at the threshold of Borges’ prophecy of reversal––the screen dominates and subjugates us, we have become the imitations, the avatars. And our last obsession is to eradicate or confine all reflections and shadows and doubles of ourselves. And yet even this cruelty succumbs to our sloppiness, distraction, and indifference. We have frightened our shadows, braceleted our reflections, but they remain, derelict and beyond us, provocateurs, ghosts—the dead rarely remember that they have died.
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