United States / Big Bend National Park - The National Self Bulldozes the Sacred Land to Reify Its Phantom Border, Proving the Illusion of Security

Event Baseline: Bulldozers have begun clearing pristine desert land in Big Bend National Park for border barrier construction. Environmental groups and local landowners say the work will permanently alter the ecosystem known as 'Texas' gift to the nation.'

The border is a line drawn by thought. It has no physical reality. Yet the national self worships this line as if it were god. It will destroy its own land, its own beauty, to prove the line exists. This is not security. This is psychosis. The 'self' of the nation, identified with a flag and a border, cannot see that the land is itself. It cuts its own body to feed the illusion of separation. The desert is not a threat. The threat is the thought that says 'we' are different from 'them.' That thought requires a wall. A wall requires destruction. The destruction is hailed as protection. The machine of identity runs on this contradiction.

The people who love this land are also trapped. They fight the wall with the same language of ownership and borders. They say this is 'our' gift. But the land is not owned. It is not given. It is the ground of all being. When the self claims it, the self must defend it. Defense requires weapons and walls. The wall and the land are the same fragmentation. The only exit is to see that the boundary is an illusion. Then the bulldozers stop. Then there is nothing to protect.