Power thrives on division. Control is most effective when people are severed from their origins, their families, their histories, their truths. Severance is not just a consequence of war, capitalism, or ideology — it is a feature, an intentional mechanism built into the architecture of modern power. The adoptee is the ultimate severed subject. Dislocated from their original identity, reassigned to a new history, given a new name, a new lineage, a new citizenship — adoptees are living proof th...