It's crazy to think that the level of border control we have today would be unfathomable to someone even 100 years ago. If we go a bit earlier, how could you even ID someone without photographs?
Join Schengen! It's easy, unless Austria abuses it's Veto rights
This is a call for world federalism. I support it, but it's probably ahead of our time. A democratic world federation (a truly united nations [of earth] perhaps) would be able to more effectively solve many (global) problems.
Or it's a return to how things were before nationalism rotted the brains of basically everyone on Earth
He somehow managed to make border abolition sound uncool. Many people don’t agree with it for many reasons, none of which were it being uncool until this tweet
Had to put on pants to go outside due to artificially created laws.
what he's really complaining about is queuing, not borders. first world problem.
oh this bloviating asshat
Yeah fuckface, borders are this thing in geopolitics which ALSO involves OTHER sovereign nations that might not WANT your fucking moron face there
Missing the message because you hate the messenger.
What is the message? That borders are dumb?
Yes. Borders are dumb.
Countries are just lines drawn in the sand with a stick.
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I don't care if you hate him; he's right on this. this entire thing is bullshit.
Who hates him?
A lot of people think he's become a bit of a wanker on social media and IRL. Some of his tweets are cringe and makes him doing like he's lightyears up his own ass.
Sometimes I think he forgets he's there to be the science guy and makes it about himself a lot, but when he gets on a science rant that's when hea good, just going on about his love of science and why it's cool as fuck.
Getting James Cameron to fix the stars in the Titanic remake boosted his ego a little bit, but I get that, I'd be a bit ego filled if I was able to make James Cameron change something in his film.
I was one of them until I realized that in grand scheme of things, he is net positive. So I don’t care if he is cringe, I learn quite a bit from him and I wish more influential people were smart like him.
Great!
Now consider why the "public" started turning on him in 2021 or so.
Fair enough. Maybe I just miss Carl too much
That's always understandable. I think the bigger picture here is that we sometimes forget that they're all humans, not just public figures. They have other thoughts and opinions that aren't curated for the world.
Plus, Sagan's era didn't have Internet. People weren't sharing with the world every single fucking thought that came out of their head. I'm sure we would've heard Sagan say some dumb shit here and there if he had to produce today's world's kind of content.
I don't use twitter (never have tbh) so I've only ever seen screenshots of his more infamous tweets, but I have listened to a LOT of his startalk podcast. Most of the time he's an entertaining person and seems to admit when he doesn't know enough about a given subject (although I've seen a lot of criticism that he does tend to talk about things he doesn't know, it doesn't seem to be that way in the podcast at least)
He can be annoying in some of his podcasts though and you can feel his guests being diplomatic about it while still hearing a bit of annoyance in their voice or next sentence etc. But overall I rather quite like him, despite the Internet's disdain for him.
More people making science popular and easily digestible is always a good thing IMO. But I'm also biased because I've really liked NDT since I was a kid due to seeing him in space documentaries when I was young, and I still love his version of Cosmos.
I think it actually is interesting if you're going to call out humans as a species of animal!
All across species from unicellular to megafauna, from plants to fungus, you can find mechanisms used to defend an individual's physical territory. Ants and bees from the same species will fight and kill others colony members of they stray into their territory. Bears will fight and kill other bears. Our closest relatives, chimps, will go to war with neighboring chimp bands.
Artificial borders are humans way of saying "this is my territory enter at your own risk". The REALLY interesting thing is that we have established systematic exceptions to the behaviors we see in nature. "Ask us before you come and you can visit and be safe here from those that enforce our territory."
The temporary nature is unique, many social animals will permanently adopt an outsider into their group on occasion, equivalent to immigration, but I'm not aware of any that have pre-agreed temporary violations of group territory.
I guess you can draw that comparison, but then human territories are exponentially bigger than anything an equivalent social animal might claim as "enter at your risk" area. A traveling pack of dogs can just go around another pack's territory. We can't do that, we're boxed in. There's no neutral space left. I guess you could argue there's international waters, but that's practically inaccessible to most people.
okay I don't know how to articulate this properly but i'll try;
fukn get rekt ngt
I love all the posts calling him arrogant and elitist for pointing out something, in a critical manner, that by their nature are arrogant and elitist: nation state borders.
Those things that make people who've done nothing feel entitled to more resources than other people by virtue of where their mother was hanging out when she popped them out.
I think dwelling on their artifical, self-serving nature is healthier than taking them seriously in any other sense than the threat of state violence for failing to pretend that they're sacred.
Humanity, not to be confused with your own individual greed or birth lottery results, would be far better off abolishing them. They bring nothing to the table but dehumanization, death, and inequity. Most, even most who consider themselves to be on the privileged side of the imaginary line in the dirt, have far more in common with the people trying to get to the privileged side than the miniscule populations of sociopath humans that use them to secure and metastasize their ego score hoards, the entire point of them.
Wait til you learn that the reason you hate immigrants and immigration is that the wealthy conditioned you to hate them. Notice how capital can cross borders, but people can't? This allows the wealthy to profit off of international arbitrage, while regular citizens can't. A CEO can move a factory to a low cost country to save on labor, but you in a wealthy country can't move there to save on cost of living. And the citizens in a poor country can't move to a wealthy country to earn better wages. The corporations get to take advantage of international arbitrage, but you don't.
NDT the goat of saying rly dumb shit but everyone thinks it's somehow enlightening. he's like Jaden smith but Twitter likes him
I mean I agree with him here. It's ridiculous how we are still this tribalistic species while basically everyone would be better off when we would work together (e.g. climate change would be non-existent)
In tribal times, there were no maps and the borders moved a lot, but when you crossed them, you generally got driven back or killed.
This goes back to before there were humans, and all other territorial animals do it, too.
I think about this a few times a year and I become sad each time. We only get this one planet in the whole ass universe. And we can barely see all of it, unless we're lucky and/or rich (at least moreso than most of humankind).
It's profoundly ridiculous.
Black science man always talks like he's done weed for the first time and is trying to impress his nephew's friends.
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