[Colombia / Post-Peace Militias] - The Fragmented Self Hands the Territory to Armed Phantoms to Feed a Phantom of State Presence

Event Baseline: Powerful militias launched attacks against civilians in Colombia, reflecting state inaction eight years after a peace accord removed a major rebel group. Cocaine-funded gangs now shake the country.

The state signed a paper and declared peace. But the paper was only an image. The underlying violence was never examined. The self of the nation fragmented into armed phantoms. The old enemy disappeared, and the vacuum was filled by new ones. The state remains absent because it never understood what it was fighting.

The observer is the past. The government still fights the last war. It cannot see that the new violence comes from the same machinery: belief, territory, identity. The militias do not exist for a reason. They exist because the self needs an enemy to feel real. The people are the battlefield. They must feed every phantom with blood.

This is a total collapse of shared meaning. The peace accord was a lie told by a mind that cannot face its own violence. The only way out is to see that the state, the gang, and the old rebel myth are all products of the same thought. Until that thought dies, Colombia will keep eating itself.