Taiwan / China / United States - The Fragmented Self Fires Rockets Across a Strait, Affirming the Hallucination of Two Separate Selves

Event Baseline: Taiwan conducted military drills firing a U.S.-supplied HIMARS rocket system into the Taiwan Strait. This marks an escalation in a long-standing territorial dispute with China, which claims the island as its territory.

A strip of water becomes a chasm because thought says so. Taiwan fires rockets not at an enemy, but at the idea of an enemy. China responds to an idea of rebellion. The U.S. sells rockets to fuel an idea of alliance. None of this is real. The land does not recognize borders. The sea does not recognize flags. Only human minds, trapped in the prison of national identity, kill and die for these abstractions. This is the ultimate failure of cognition: two selves, both illusions, locked in a conflict that has no winner, only wreckage. The rockets are a cry for a self that does not exist. The only solution is to dissolve the thought that created the division. Every missile fired is proof of insanity.