My initial thoughts about the whole conflict. After a quick wikipedia to get my footing right in this situation so i dont look like an utter fool in front of the internet i came to this conclusion: Palestine has had more residents than any house in any horror movie. I assume most of it was because of religious warfare, but the fighting still continues because of the whole thing with gaza. Gaza, is basically the fighting ground for the conflict between palestine and isreal, so its like if the east coast and west coast fought but they had their war in kansas. After getting my footing down on this, I started thinking. This man left because of the conflcits, and became a somewhat nomad who left behind his identity because of warring states.
Now what if i told you we didn't need countries. Before you chase me down and accuse me of being a radical or a communist, hear me out. Aside from political boundaries, what are states? Just lines drawn in the sand with a stick. We keep to this political system that creates states and nations that only seek to divide and seperate us more and more. Same thing goes for religion. All this out dated system gives us is war, poverty, collusion, corruption, and a depraved veiw of the common existance. We are all human, we are all people, and because someone lives 5 feet over a "boarder" is not your enemy, because someone youve never evern spoken with told you its there and everyone on the opposite side wants to kill you.
Now you're sitting there hating me, because of such a radical veiw. But look at the reading. This is evident of all the fighting due to states and territories. I feel this belief is just srengthened by the reading, as bias as either side will be about the whole conflict.
But that's just me ranting. I know i shouldn't have done this in two parts ebcause it was hard picking up my train of thoughts...
Do you think your borderless world could exist without anarchy ensuing? Perhaps we should think about drawing borders of nation-states not along political lines, but along cultural ones. I am reminded of a Chicano writer named Gloria Anzaldua. When the border between Texas and Mexico was drawn, half of her ancestors became American while the other half remained Mexican. They were then from two different countries, but their culture and family ties were singular. Many, many families found themselves in this same situation, all because of a rather arbitrary line that followed a river.
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