[Ethiopia / Social Media] - The Fragmented Self Wages War with Fabricated Realities to Feed a Phantom of Truth

Event Baseline: Millions of Ethiopians rely on social media for news as fighting resumes between federal forces and rebel groups in the north. Pro-government and pro-rebel accounts flood platforms with propaganda and disinformation.

The state self and the rebel self both claim to protect the people. They both sacrifice the people to the phantom of victory. The propaganda is not a byproduct. It is the disease. It prevents the organism from seeing itself. Ethiopia is not a country. It is a collection of warring identities, each convinced it owns the only truth. Until the self stops creating enemies, there is no truth. There is only the endless loop of attack and counter-attack. The machine amplifies the sickness. The human mind obeys. The body bleeds.