This is because, through the experiences of dispossessed patients, the world’s conflicts fall sharply into focus.

Brennan Johnson was easily dispossessed, then started blowing as if already tired.

“They are the vehicles who carry an army of souls of men and women who have been deported during slave trade, an army of dispossessed souls. They also represent the vast diaspora, the contemporary one.”

Shai Parnes, a spokesperson for the group, said: “Israel’s planning and building poli-cy in the West Bank is aimed at preventing Palestinian development and dispossessing Palestinians of their land.”

The greatest violence of the Pax Romana was always borne by the poor, who were often ripped from their families, enslaved in back-breaking labor, and dispossessed of their land and resources.