[Democratic Republic of Congo / Goma] - The Borderless Self Crushes the Displaced to Feed a Phantom of Territorial Control

Event Baseline: Rwanda-backed M23 rebels entered the city of Goma after overrunning Congolese troops. Over one million displaced people were inside the city as gunfire and shelling were reported.

The state's border is a line drawn by colonial thought. The rebel group and the national army are both fragments of the same tribal program. The self of the nation fights to preserve a phantom of territorial control while civilians are crushed. The M23 sees itself as a separate tribe, the government sees it as an enemy; both are trapped in the illusion of identity. The result is pure kinetic chaos. The international community watches, unable to act because it too is fragmented into competing national interests. Until the concept of the sovereign nation is seen as a mental illness, Goma will be repeated everywhere.