Reconstruction

The Men Who Cannot Dance

There is a time to mourn and a time to dance, but every civilisation eventually meets the men in the corner: the ones who cannot create joy, cannot dig wells, cannot plant orchards, and therefore try to charge humanity for passing through the door. From Abraham’s wells to Isaac and Ishmael spared from the knife, from Ruth the Moabite to the modern politics of grievance, the sacred question is not who can claim the land most loudly, but who can make the land less hungry for children.