Another incredibly spot-on analysis! I really appreciate and admire the clarity and insight your articles bring to a topic that is too often presented with neither.

The literary device of leading in with the anecdote about the glasses scar was really well-done, too. Very effective. I'm glad your friend still has her sight, despite the misfortune, and I hope the residual distress from the scar dwindles as quickly as such things can. I hope the country still has its sight, too. Sometimes I wonder.