Freedom requires order. Your freedom is hollow if you must spend all of your time and resources protecting your loved ones and retaining possession of your belongings. An old saying goes, "Good fences make good neighbors." If you don't see this, try living in a sleeping bag in a homeless encampment. No fences there. Nothing to keep some asshole from taking your sleeping bag when you leave for an hour to escape the stench.
Live in a homeless encampment for one 24 hour period, and you will understand the need for fences, for law and order, and for armies and police and government and nations.
Yeah yeah, freedom-loving people have caused obviously the situations you describe...damn human race! So disgraceful! I mean, thank God for the state and the military, keeping us safe from our fellow beastly human beings, only capable of killing each other. Thank god we are still subjected to dark occultists philanthopists that are really our betters, and will take us to the perfect society they envision, based on the perfect symmetry of the universe...you just keep on be a good slave, and your masters will take good care of you, they for sure have homeless people at heart for one, don't you worry about that....
Work for justice. Work for liberty. Work for empowerment of the people. But be smart about it. Abolishing national borders will not get you there. It would turn the world into one big frontier in which various cultural groups would essentially start all over, each seizing territory in the hope that its people might live in peace.
I also envision a world without borders (in a sense). There would still be territorial governments using force to impose order on territory delimited by fences. But individual human beings would be so empowered through online communities, sovereign States on the Internet, that humanity will be able to reduce the role of the territorial governments to a role comparable to large property management firms.
IOW, the solution that I envision does not involve the destruction of property rights, including the right of a culture to seize territory for itself. My vision would accomplish the same goal (justice) by empowering every human being on the planet so that the territorial nations would have to compete with each other to attract residents.
It's ovious that if, so to speak, the switch will be turned off right here right now, there will be chaos and mayhem and all these things, but it's easy to say that's "humanity's" fault, without considering the deep programming we have been subjected to. That said, most of the people who are forced to migrate don't do that because they fancy it...they'd stay the heck in their own land if they were left in peace, while instead our controllers are causing all these wars and plundering to cause social and racial tensions in the west for their own agenda...never forget that.
Your remarks align well with my own thinking. But however you understand the evil in human society to operate, the important question is, "What are you personally willing to do about it?"
I have a plan that fully respects everyone's rights, including civil and property rights. My plan is lawful, simple, effective, and fun. When will people say, "Show me." and then, after being shown, say, "Count me in!"?
We had no fences, no walls and no locks on our doors where my family came from. No one stole from us and we shared with our neighbors. But maybe that's hard to understand in the West
I began life in a town like that. It is the way that it should be. But to have a town like that, everyone in the town must be united and strongly bound together by culture and language and world view. To have that kind of harmony, you basically need to have only one race, only one religion, certainly only one language, and only one political viewpoint.
When you put different cultures together, they clash. There are powerful fundamental reasons for this. "Multicultural society" cannot work without becoming a police state, which burdens both liberty and economy. That is why each culture throughout human history has seized territory for itself.
Order is, per se, a good thing. If the current order is unjust, focus on making it just. But do not revolt against order. Abolishing borders would be stupid; it would harm many people.
That's interesting, where we grew up, it was a variety of religions with Muslims, Hindus and some other faiths. But they did have the same values. They all respected and cared for their neighbours.
If we cooked something special, we would always share it with our neighbors.
Maybe we should study why one society lives together while others feel the need to keep high fences and a hand gun
I think that the key is to understand that "ways of life" cannot compete for control over the same physical space. Think of "way of life" as the protocol by which individuals and groups interact with one another. As long as everyone agrees to conform to the same protocol, peaceful and mutually beneficial coexistence is possible.
For that to work, the distribution of property and of economic and political power must be just. If some groups are oppressed and other groups are privileged, then there will be trouble.
Agreed.
Have you read Homo Deus yet? I am reading it now it goes through these issues and looks at it from a historical and scientific perspective
My reading is limited to law cases these days. Usually an encounter with an intelligent person makes me feel like Rip van Winkle. In an almost literal sense, I live on a battlefield and I do and think in the ways that you would expect of someone dodging bullets. I am not here on steemit to pass the time. I am here to tell my story, a shocking story that I hope will become a call for help that people will respond to.
I am pleased your on here @ideafarm
I look forward to hearing your story.
I might be doing a book review of Homo Deus, so you can get a condensed version of the key principles. Do look out for it in the next few weeks :)