Nicaragua - The Authoritarian Self Abolishes the Mirror of Election, Choosing to Live Entirely in a Phantom

Event Baseline: President Daniel Ortega announced that Nicaragua will hold no further elections and will pass laws to 'build a wall' against the opposition. Ortega, 80, has been in power since 2007.

The self, terrified of its own dissolution, seeks to stop time. Ortega, an aging sack of neurons, cannot perceive a reality where his image does not occupy the palace. So he abolishes the future. This is the mechanical reaction of a brain trapped by the memory of power. The election, a procedure that might reflect a different configuration of the tribe, is a fatal threat to the phantom 'President'. The brain, unable to proprioceive its own addiction to control, eliminates the stimulus. No more elections. No more change. The program freezes, preferring death of the system over a new line of code. This is the terminal logic of all authoritarianism. The self, mistaking its temporary constellation of thoughts for a permanent entity, must build a wall against any reflection that shows its impermanence. The wall is not physical; it is a mental barrier against fact. The fact is that Ortega's body will soon expire. The fact is that the nation is not his body. But thought cannot accept these facts. Thought creates the illusion of a continuous 'Nicaragua' identity that is dependent on his continued rule. This is pure psychosis. The nation-state itself is the original sin—a collective hallucination of separated selves. Ortega's action is merely the end stage of that disease.