A normal organism DOES try to keep all of its innately formed regions connected and functional. It doesn't want to lose an arm or a kidney, so it tries to maintain circulation and innervation to those regions. A normal organism DOESN'T want to add more pieces. When a mosquito lands on your face, the skin doesn't annex the mosquito and connect it to your blood and nerves. Instead, your face senses the presence of an unwanted object and uses all available weapons to remove it. The occasional exceptions to this rule point back to its universality. What about pearls in oysters or cysts that form around splinters? Those are not inclusions, they're isolations. The pearl or cyst forms because physically removing the object was impossible. (Oysters don't have hands, and our hands sometimes can't remove a splinter.) The sand grain or splinter was ISOLATED, not ANNEXED. Nature don't do consolidation. Nature DOES do symbiosis. If the nearby region has something you want, you can form a relationship where you provide something useful in exchange for the wanted resource. Money or protection or transportation. This arrangement works nicely. In fact Spain KNOWS HOW TO DO SYMBIOSIS. Andorra has been symbiotic with Spain for centuries. How did it resist inclusion? Because Andorra is ALSO symbiotic with France.

At the end of the Franco-Spanish War in 1659, the Treaty of the Pyrenees was signed, which endorsed the partition of Catalonia. In 1700, the King of France prohibited the use of Catalan in Roussillon, the Catalan name for the region. Despite numerous attempts from central powers, the Catalan heritage lived on.

When nearly 10 million ballot papers were seized by Spanish police near Barcelona in the run-up to the region’s referendum on independence, there would have been real fears among separatists the vote wouldn’t go ahead. The move, part of Madrid’s efforts to stop the vote, prompted the establishment of a secret network to get more voting slips printed. One of this network’s outposts was based in a French region on the other side of the Pyrenees, nicknamed North Catalonia. The freshly-printed ballot papers were then sent to Southern Catalonia in near secrecy. This act of solidarity highlighted the close ties that have long existed between the two communities.

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