[Marco G. Casteleijn]

Please read the interesting books of “Wool – by Hugh Howey. “

[Marco G. Casteleijn]

I do think you are right about what I think you mean, and it would lift restrictions on our evolutionary process, which is natural…

For sake of arguments I here now assume that the borders are lifted and its absolute, an event unchangeable.

It limits the overall generic experiment at the moment. By abolishing the borders we do allow full traffic of  goods, also the ones we now deem illegal. Hence if it would be so to have a border-less environment, we would see the need to lift those restrictions.

Thus drugs would be a legal commodity. I forgot the tittle of the book, but a British comedian wrote a book about a politician who tried to lift the bans on illegal drugs, to abolish crime rates by 80% or so.  I agree that this would be fine. We accept by lifting borders, that we do not need to be responsible for the choices an individual makes for its well being. This choice is driven by genetics, mostly. Monkeys and humans share the same genetic profile when it comes to addition to alcohol for example, though the social benefit of heavy drinking in both societies is different.

In humanity it seems (well in our non-border-less community) counter productive and even unhealthy. Thus lifting the borders will enhance the genetic experiment of humanity on this level. Evolution will determine which genes are useful here. A weed-whacking exercise.

On other levels, it may be easier to move around. All the big wars before 1800-1900 or so were induced by natural disasters that let to starvation. People had to move to eat. Its part of life, bacteria do it as well. Let people move around for a while, some struggles here and there, but the overall binding law of a border-less community is absolute, thus the dust will settle (it may take a while).

Now local genes mix with some more alien ones, and local environments favor some genes over others. Human evolution has not halted, and now again it will not either, it will just be faster.

What it will bring in social aspects is hard to predict, since with the recent addition of the Internet social events across borders are exploding over the planet. Will the handy use of gadgets, with this I mean integrated knowledge on us at all times, lift the borders even easier? I live in Europe, moving around for jobs is not ready accepted as in the US, due to language restrains. Even in my small home country of the Netherlands, people cling to their respected dialect so fiercely, that my understanding of English is far grater than some of my native dialects. They can be as as foreing languages I do not speak. This effect can be seen in a small geographic space, over the course of a long time, where governmental borders have been lifted for over 300 years now. Those borders are invisible but almost tangible.

Thus what is border-less? By no means local linguistic- or natural-borders (e.g. mountains, seas, lakes, rivers) are lift-able that easy.

So which border do you want to become invisible? What do you mean with invisible? Which effect do you think it will induce?

 

 

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