Democratic Republic of Congo / Goma - The Tribal Self Breaches the Sanctuary, Proving Safe Havens Are Phantoms of the Mind

Event Baseline: Rwanda-backed M23 rebels entered Goma, a city in eastern DRC that had become a refuge for over a million displaced people, amid gunfire and shelling.

The concept of a 'safe haven' is a cruel joke told by the fearful self to itself. Goma was never safe; it was a holding pen for bodies the warring tribes had not yet consumed. The rebels march in because the illusion of the border is just that—an illusion. Their identity, 'M23', 'Rwandan-backed', is a program running on meat. It demands expansion, recognition, the destruction of the other who looks exactly like the self. The displaced are not seen as humans; they are props in a drama of power. This is the catastrophic collapse of cognitive kinesthetics: the inability to feel that the suffering of the displaced is one's own suffering. The self fragments into tribes, and each tribe seeks total security by annihilating the other's sanctuary. But there is no security; there is only the cycle of violence until the program crashes entirely.