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    PowerStruggle: Division of Borders...

    Why do we have to have the division of borders? Are we not but one… one mankind?

    Started by: 2019Beverly Raves:3

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    I wrote this as a story, but wanted to bring it in here for hopefully more discussion.

    Save for being able to describe where we are located in this world is there really any point in separating ourselves from others? With the division, our separation from each other seems to deepen. Oh you are from there…. sorry I cannot help you. What would happen to our world if there were no boundaries? If all rules were the same across the board, across the world.

    How can we work together if we continue to allow ourselves to be separated from each other? Why is it we continue to allow ourselves to be forced into thoughts that one is better than another? Who is they… the they that have decided it was in our best interest to draw the lines in the earth - battle one person against the other simply because of where they live. Who is the they that decided we are better off this way?

    How can we move forward in our goals of survival if we do not throw down the separations. How can we choose who should survive and who cannot. What gives us this right. Are we not all as of one? If the boundaries were erased from the earth could we better work together towards the one common goal - the goal of survival? Could we not all share in the honor of winning? If there were no boundaries then the person next to us would be our neighbor no matter where they came from.

    How can the boundaries be broken down? Should they even be? Do you want them to be?

    Fascinating topic, and one that I've been pondering myself of late. On the one hand our increasingly limited energy options have essentially brought down the globalisation experiment *in trade and travel*, but on the other hand I have always had a lot of time for the 20th centruy words of Albert Einstein: “A human being is a part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” Perhaps we need relocalisation of physical food, energy and lifestyle while using our technological improvements to come ever-closer to universal communication, understanding and empathy?

    Isaac Asimov once said, ""If we are going to be interested in, and involved with, human beings then I fail to see anything in the name that distinguishes between one set of human beings and another set. We are all human beings. If there is one thing that is biological certain about the human species it is that it is a human species. one species. the similarities among us enormous, the differences are trivial." and it has always rung true to me. I don't know if we can be made to acknowledge this. Take race for example -- we are still the same species. Then geographical separation is another contributor. I don't know if we can get around that unless we all become self-empowered intellectuals who travel the world and see/understand/experience everything. That doesn't seem possible. It's a nice thought .. but ..

    I'd venture this idea has taken hold in other discussions.




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