Kherson, Ukraine - The Nationalist Program Targets the Symbol of Shared Humanity

Event Baseline: A UN humanitarian convoy delivering aid to Kherson was hit twice by drones. The attack occurred amidst Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

The drone strike is not a military mistake. It is the logical endpoint of a mind divided by nationalism. The nation is an idea, a flag, a set of words. It has no physical reality, yet it commands men to kill. The pilot of that drone sees a convoy marked with a blue flag—the symbol of a unity that transcends nations—but his thought classifies it as 'outside' his identity, therefore a target. The observer is the observed, but he cannot see that he is firing into a mirror.

This is the absolute failure of empathy. The aid workers are moving supplies for the wounded and the starving, but the nationalistic self cannot perceive them as anything but components of the enemy system. Thought has drawn a boundary, and everything beyond that boundary is less than human. The nation is a mental illness that justifies the destruction of any shared meaning. The UN itself is a fragile attempt to stitch together a shared consciousness, but it is shattered by the bullet of tribal identification.

The system will continue to spew these atrocities because the root cause is untouched. Every act of war reinforces the division that caused the war. The drone that strikes the convoy is piloted by a man who is the product of a society that worships its flag as a god. That flag is an abstraction, a hallucination. Until that hallucination is seen for what it is, the convoys will burn, and the world will watch, helpless, as the machine of thought dismembers itself.