National Borders are starting to disappear defiant of an intense movement to further secure them. Politicians around the world are grasping to maintain power, clutching at the hearts of their fellow citizens and spurring the effort to raise walls and strengthen borders. Has anyone stopped to consider that, perhaps, borders are becoming obsolete?
Borders were a necessity to protect valuable resources and ensure the prosperity of one’s people. Civilization began stagnant as agriculture required great populations to tend to one location. Ethnicities and cultures were purified and people laid all kinds of claims to their little slices of the earth. God ordained claims, folk tale and legend anointed claims, philosophically ingrained claims. These were unnatural claims to a slice of earth which never truly belonged to anyone.
To be human is to be a nomad, to seek resources and relationships where they are and move to where they’ll be next. We’ve forced ourselves to live this way under the tip of a spear and at the behest of bullets but, technology is a mirror and what’s reflected is our true nature. People seek “freedom” of movement to go where the resources are. We’ve devised incredibly clever ways to transcend our spatial ties to specialized work and family in order to stave off our Itinerant hunger.
Money is a spectral manifestation of our innate desire to traverse the Earth in search of resources. Humans imbue inanimate things with their nomadic spirit and dispatch them with the hopes that a little bit of the world would come back to benefit them. Unadulterated money would do exactly what was always intended of it, it will return undiluted resources to those who dispatch it, regardless of borders.
Less intermediaries are needed with peer 2 peer and open source technologies. It’s incredibly difficult for borders to siphon the flow of resources and money or build artificial Silos of wealth disguised as GDP. A border doesn’t stop a software developer nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z from participating in the fine tapestry of a project that is global in scale. A gifted speaker nostr:npub1qqvt0m3nlvjnssmrn33w9yh7cuq2dx5nkz8wxax9hk5hrjdnj4jqz8cn3w can document and rally the participants.
Money will flow to where the resources and intention of people are purest.
A fellow in Venezuela, nostr:npub17amtesfzwxl8nlr3ke2l8jl7kw52z60n8msnxh7vps3g9xgpmf9qx5nldk , can snap photos to craft art enjoyed by a fellow in the USA nostr:npub1j9cmpzhlzeex6y85c2pnt45r5zhxhtx73a2twt77fyjwequ4l4jsp5xd49 and an exchange of value will occur. Spirits transcend borders and the “money” that transports them will disperse finely among the human population while the human population continues its search for valuable resources.
A little girl living in a desert island never experiences thirst when the diaspora of humanity taps into bountiful fountain heads of water elsewhere.
A father never lifts a weapon and is forced to leave their family to fight a war in a far off land for the sake of stealing the resources of another father when his specialized labor is more valuable to his supposed foe.
Nostr and Bitcoin are among the technologies that reflect Humanity's true image. Who do you know is refusing to look in the mirror?
