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"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing." ~Socrates
wtfA brilliant idea came to me this morning as I watched the news unfold the story of women shooting foreigners in Cairo...
What if there were no borders? What if you could walk into Canada or Mexico without having to present proof that you were an American? What if you could move to Italy without having to ask permission or to Iraq on a whim? It seems to me that God gave us the earth as a whole and yet we have divided and conquered making it an impossibility to see all that he has given us.
We complain of racial discrimination, but have no one to blame but our own human desire to own that which is not ours to have.
How wonderful it would be to just wake up one morning and decide that I'd like to live in Babylon for a time and be able to later pick up and relocate to Dublin...alas, I can not, as I would first have to fill out all of the forms in triplicate and then cope with the US not allowing me to come back to claim a home.
Why?
Again, human nature...
Instead of man growing, building a single civilization they grew and claimed property. It is our intrinsic nature to be territorialistic (I think I made that word up...). Owning a part of the world is based on our greedy consumption of all that has been given to us. We do not share anything, as that would make power an illusion.
I got news...power is an illusion. Americans don't have it. Germans don't have it. Russians and Africans? Yeah, they don't have it either. What we all do have is this fantasy that what we are creating has meaning, when in reality the meaning was there at the beginning and we have been slowly chipping it away.
We were created as equals, but through our segregation we have built pedestals of exclusion. We have deemed that there is no such thing as equality, as we have put up imaginary walls of who can be where through no other justification than where your birth certificate claims you belong to.
By doing this we have made it impossible for me to live freely in Venice and for a man from Zimbabwe to build a life in the hills of South Dakota. By doing this we miss so much of the beautiful world God gave us.
Am I proud to be an American? The answer is yes, however, I am more proud to be one of God's creatures and simply wonder why such pride in territorial heritage truly matters. We all originated in one place...why did we allow ourselves to wander into such solidarity?
What if there were no borders? What if you could walk into Canada or Mexico without having to present proof that you were an American? What if you could move to Italy without having to ask permission or to Iraq on a whim? It seems to me that God gave us the earth as a whole and yet we have divided and conquered making it an impossibility to see all that he has given us.
We complain of racial discrimination, but have no one to blame but our own human desire to own that which is not ours to have.
How wonderful it would be to just wake up one morning and decide that I'd like to live in Babylon for a time and be able to later pick up and relocate to Dublin...alas, I can not, as I would first have to fill out all of the forms in triplicate and then cope with the US not allowing me to come back to claim a home.
Why?
Again, human nature...
Instead of man growing, building a single civilization they grew and claimed property. It is our intrinsic nature to be territorialistic (I think I made that word up...). Owning a part of the world is based on our greedy consumption of all that has been given to us. We do not share anything, as that would make power an illusion.
I got news...power is an illusion. Americans don't have it. Germans don't have it. Russians and Africans? Yeah, they don't have it either. What we all do have is this fantasy that what we are creating has meaning, when in reality the meaning was there at the beginning and we have been slowly chipping it away.
We were created as equals, but through our segregation we have built pedestals of exclusion. We have deemed that there is no such thing as equality, as we have put up imaginary walls of who can be where through no other justification than where your birth certificate claims you belong to.
By doing this we have made it impossible for me to live freely in Venice and for a man from Zimbabwe to build a life in the hills of South Dakota. By doing this we miss so much of the beautiful world God gave us.
Am I proud to be an American? The answer is yes, however, I am more proud to be one of God's creatures and simply wonder why such pride in territorial heritage truly matters. We all originated in one place...why did we allow ourselves to wander into such solidarity?
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