[Ethiopia / Somali Regional State / Kenya] - The Tribal Self Fights Over a Flag to Feed a Phantom of Territory

Event Baseline: Fighting between regional forces in Ethiopia's Somali Regional State has forced hundreds of civilians to flee across the border into Kenya. The dispute began over the raising of the Somali Regional State flag.

The flag is a piece of cloth. The self has imbued it with absolute meaning. Those who raise it are heroes; those who lower it are enemies. This is the illusion of identity made lethal. The human operating system divides the world into 'us' and 'them' based on a symbol. The result is displacement and death.

The self does not see humans. It sees categories. The category demands defense. So the brain launches kinetic action. This is not politics. It is a failure of perception. The mind is trapped in a loop of tribal loyalty. Until the loop is broken, the fighting will spread. The border is a line drawn in the dirt, yet the self kills to maintain it. The species has not evolved beyond the chimpanzee troop.