Looking forward to reading more...1. To be honest, most human-created land borders have always been arbitrary to me. The only distinctions that actually make practical sense are ecological (e.g.: "bioregion", "climate zone", etc.), because different areas require different forms of care, ways of sustainably integrating human activity into that environment.
2. I also find physical human characteristics (e.g.: "race", sex, etc.) as mostly arbitrary when it comes to getting along. All humans share fundamental needs to some extent. We should be working together to fulfill them, but many people attach themselves to labels like "nationality" and want to war over "natural resources" and abstractions like "power" and "money".
3. The only things that seem to distinguish human beings from one another in any meaningful way are their languages and histories/experiences. And not in the sense of one being "more" or "less" than any other, but in the sense that those differences have the potential to inhibit communication between them. By learning one another's language(s) and being open to dialogue, we can find the common ground.
4. Upon that shared foundation, we can finally build a decent quality of life for all with harm to none if we so choose. In other words, the more that we realize point #2 above, the more that we can intentionally work together on point #1, but point #3 has to happen first.
thank you for reading what little I put out, and I appreciate your thoughts and input, all of which have been put into consideration. I will need to deconstruct the concept of nationality in particular somewhere along the way but I can only write, like, three paragraphs a day before I burn myself out
Looking forward to reading more...1. To be honest, most human-created land borders have always been arbitrary to me. The only distinctions that actually make practical sense are ecological (e.g.: "bioregion", "climate zone", etc.), because different areas require different forms of care, ways of sustainably integrating human activity into that environment.
2. I also find physical human characteristics (e.g.: "race", sex, etc.) as mostly arbitrary when it comes to getting along. All humans share fundamental needs to some extent. We should be working together to fulfill them, but many people attach themselves to labels like "nationality" and want to war over "natural resources" and abstractions like "power" and "money".
3. The only things that seem to distinguish human beings from one another in any meaningful way are their languages and histories/experiences. And not in the sense of one being "more" or "less" than any other, but in the sense that those differences have the potential to inhibit communication between them. By learning one another's language(s) and being open to dialogue, we can find the common ground.
4. Upon that shared foundation, we can finally build a decent quality of life for all with harm to none if we so choose. In other words, the more that we realize point #2 above, the more that we can intentionally work together on point #1, but point #3 has to happen first.
thank you for reading what little I put out, and I appreciate your thoughts and input, all of which have been put into consideration. I will need to deconstruct the concept of nationality in particular somewhere along the way but I can only write, like, three paragraphs a day before I burn myself out