United States / Democratic Republic of Congo - The Tribal Self Quarantines the World: A Phantom Border Shuts Out Its Own

Event Baseline: A US citizen infected with Ebola in DR Congo was transported to Germany for care as the Trump administration banned Americans in the outbreak zone from flying home on commercial flights.

The illusion of the nation-self requires the creation of an impenetrable boundary. A disease becomes the enemy, and one’s own citizens become carriers of death. This is the mechanical projection of fear onto a map. The thought that security lies in separation is the very thing that isolates and weakens. The body knows no borders, but the fractured mind draws lines in blood and then wonders why it suffers alone.