Pangeaday

April 14, 2008

My weekly TED update email today brought in this gem.

I am a great believer of a unified world - a world without borders. Though from a technological and communication standpoint we have almost achieved that, politically we are aeon's away from that goal. Being an Alien in America & a non-resident Indian, I have been subject to obscene amount of bureaucracy and paperwork by both countries.

Is the cost and human resources involved(not to mention my time and also the physical and mental agony caused due to my extreme allergy towards paperwork and unnecessary authority) in keeping this system justified? In a economy that thrives and dies on co-dependency, do borders really enhance anything at all?There are several factors that group people and draw less controlled - permeable by willingness borders like religion & language. These intrinsically allow people to come together to share these interests. These are times where "coming-together" has a completely different meaning than it ever had.

This notion of having national borders seems similar to building walls between the Troposphere and Stratosphere so that we know what is what.

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