First world would-be rewriters face ridicule, charges of insanity, discomfort, even prison. Third and fourth worlders face torture and death. And yet we have a moral responsibility to try to rewrite the script. To write out the roles of biopirate, CEO, paramilitary commando, bomber, state propagandist. To write in the things we like.
Isolation is the enemy of the rewriter.
In a corner of this continent, a group of people are trying to rewrite the script. They are trying to write in intercommunalism, democracy, respect for women, food, land, education, health care, human rights, leaders who take orders rather than give them. The script would like to see them isolated. Seeing them isolated, it would see them quieted. Seeing them quieted, it would see them dead, or returned to their former roles as takers of orders, as eaters of scraps, as workers who are not rewarded.