Nigeria / Plateau State - The Tribal Self Hunts the Other House to House

Event Baseline: Attackers went house to house in a village in Nigeria's central Plateau state, killing at least 25 people.

The killers moved house to house. They did not see persons. They saw representatives of an opposing identity. Thought drew a line between 'us' and 'them'. That line is not actual. It is a phantom produced by stored memory of past grievances and tribal belief. The 'self' of the group required the annihilation of the other to feel secure. This is not human nature. This is corrupted software running on traumatized biological hardware. The illusion of a separate self, organized around a name and a flag, demands the death of those who carry a different name. This is the total failure of cognition.

The killing of 25 villagers is not an isolated act. It is the logical output of a mind that cannot see the other as itself. The thought process that says 'my people are threatened' has no basis in present reality. It is a replay of old wounds. The self cannot perceive the shared body of humanity. It only perceives categories. Those categories are thought-generated. Until that thought is seen and dissolved, the violence will repeat. The system is crashing.