“Do you know why the world is ending? I mean, our world—the human world?” Louisa Gabriel asked.
“No, I don’t,” I replied. “Please tell me.”
“Because we humans are stupid,” she said.
I said nothing.
You can take our land, rename our rivers, bury our ancestors beneath your monuments, and replace our memories with your history. But the moment we question the reality you constructed to justify our disappearance; your world loses its authority over ours.”
Whoever draws the map owns the people who walk by it. The greatest act of rebellion is to question the map before it leads an entire people to their extinction.