Myanmar - The State Self Conscripts Its Own Flesh, Forcing the Body to Fight for an Idea Named 'Myanmar'

Event Baseline: As rebels lose ground in Myanmar, the military junta is forcibly conscripting men into the army. The BBC reports from frontline positions showing the shrinking territory and the forced recruitment amid civil war.

The state is a ghost. It has no body. So it steals bodies. It gives them a name: 'soldier.' It points them at other bodies and says: 'kill for the nation.' But the nation is just a story. There is no 'Myanmar' under the dirt. Only dirt. The junta clings to its dying self by grinding young men into meat. This is the final stage of the disease. The self, faced with its own dissolution, chooses total destruction. It would rather see every body broken than admit the fiction of its authority. The conscripted man is a mirror of the conscriptor. Both are slaves to thought. The only escape is to see the thought that created the whole machine and, in that seeing, end it.