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"Before 1914, the earth had belonged to all. People went where they wished and stayed as long as they pleased. There were no permits, no visas, and it always gives me pleasure to astonish the young by telling them that before 1914, I travelled from Europe to India and America without a passport and without ever having seen one."
-Stefan Zweig
Borders as we know them are a recent concoction.
The passport system as we know it dates to the First World War. ICE was founded in 2003 as part of the so-called "War on Terror," a disaster for freedom in every way.
These institutions are neither timeless nor beneficial nor inevitable.
https://crimethinc.com/borders
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@dimi They declared war on drugs, drugs won. They declared war on terror, terror won. There must be some sort of lesson here...
@dimi Yes and No. Nation states, and, by extension their concept of borders and passports, are an extremely recent thing, but, to a degree, these were an improvement over the former state of things, where one *could* mostly just travel all over the world, *unless* one happened across some noble who didn't like ones nose (often quite literally) and was fully within their right to do whatever they pleased about it. Rules-based international relations *do* have *some* advantages.