We’ve discussed extensively the boundary between man and nature and how such boundaries have been bridged. In this sense, we’re talking about domestic vs. natural, or humans vs. animals. My favorite example of this is evident in Pasternak’s “Sister my life…”. Through his involvement with the “Futurism” movement, he embodies a positive perspective toward the future as he details the merging of the human and natural world. While present in much of the works we have read, the merging of the human and natural world was not present in Kata Pride Brown’s Saving the Sacred Sea. Typically it is nature that plays victim to man, such as in the case of deforestation or industrialization, but it seems like in this piece, nature is posing the problem to man. No longer do we see man vs. nature but more man vs. man, battling for domination and power. The Foreign Agent law was designed to target specific NGOs who “had been especially meddlesome in the affairs of the state and business elites” (184). More generally, Brown states that “law was created to serve as a weapon of the state against its opponents” (182), but it is evident through this notion of legal nihilism that laws such as The Foreign Agent law is used as a weapon against its very own people. For me, this piece had less to do with the problematic dynamic between man and nature and more to do with the conflict among humans.