OF PASSPORTS AND VISAS, CHAINS AND BORDERS

We all follow our natural instincts. And when I say 'we', I do not necessarily mean just humans. Everything and anything in the Universe has a natural tendency to behave in a certain way unless forced otherwise. One can say it is a philosophical generalization of the Newton's first law. One such tendency is to compete with each other. For example, most of the games that human beings play - football, cricket, badminton, chess, basketball, tennis etc. involve pitting teams against each other to win the game. They all involve collectively or individually competing against a team or an individual. We barely invented any games where instead of pitting teams against one another, we join together to achieve a common objective. My natural tendency tells me that such a game, if ever invented, will be boring anyway. After all, where's the fun if there is no one to lose?! It can be deduced that one of the natural tendencies is to enjoy winning 'over' others, and not winning 'with' others.

And what is political map of the world if not just another big game like all the others we know? We have divided ourselves in teams, and started calling them our 'nations'. And we have been playing all sorts of games. And interestingly, we also gave these games very interesting names! - "World War I", "World War II", "Gulf Wars"...oh and yes, a very fancy class of games - "Revolutions". We could have saved ourselves from playing all of these wonderful and bloody games if only we had not divided ourselves into teams in the first place. You wouldn't kill Jews if they you didn't consider them to be 'another team'. People in Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima wouldn't have to die if there were not in opposite teams. In fact there is never a right side and a wrong side in a war. There are just my side and your side. You just want your side to kill and win irrespective of the fact that there are innocent people like you in the opposite team too. Nobody cares to ask for a justification. It is just our natural tendency to make teams and compete and that's why we do it. My point is clear.

We do not need teams. We do not need nations. We do not need to pledge loyalty to landmasses which have divided the humans into different teams and have caused bloody games. Of course I sound unpatriotic. I sound unnatural and very revolting. I may not be on the logic's side, but at least I am on God's side - Because you see, God never created an Indian or an American or Chinese. He merely created a Human being who was supposed to do whatever necessary to survive. He was supposed to hunt together in a pack, live together to stay safe and grow together. If we chose to divide and fight amongst ourselves instead of protecting each other from the 'real' problems, it is our weakness, not pride. You and me are a human being first, then perhaps an American or a Korean. I hate to apply for a passport. I hate that I am asked to get a Visa to visit Japan. It makes me feel like I am an untouchable beyond the borders of my country. Like I am a prisoner asking for a parole to visit my brothers, sisters and friends who live in a free world. An average American wastes more food on his or her plate than a Somalian can gather on his plate for an entire day. Why so? Why would my American brothers not share their extra slice of pizza they are willing to throw away in dustbin with my far less fortunate Somalian brother? "Because they are not on my team, they are a different country, I do not have to care".If that brutal mentality is all that is served in the name of Patriotism, I am better off being a Revolutionary. At least I am still a human. 

Everything needs to be redone. Every rule needs to be broken and the society needs to be restructured. If we are to divide ourselves into nations, it should be to make the administration easier. It should be done to make sure that who has a surplus, shall share, not so you can stop me from visiting my friend in North Korea and my sister in Brazil. It should be done to be able to protect each other better, not to sell my oil at a rate beyond your capacity to buy just so I can fill my bulge while you starve. Emailing a Russian friend should not mean conspiring against the United States, And being an Indian should not necessarily mean hating a Chinese or a Pakistani. 

To a better world.