A Right Older Than Nations
π± Before there were nations, there was belonging.
Long before flags, passports, and borders, humans belonged β to families, to communities, to places. We gathered around fires, built stories, raised children, and shared futures. The right to belong was not granted by documents. It was natural, implicit, lived.
Today, that simple human truth is obscured.
π Borders now decide who counts β and who doesnβt.
A piece of paper can determine if you flee or stay, speak or stay silent, live or disappear. The border has become a gatekeeper of rights, dignity, and safety.
Yet none of the crises we face β climate collapse, displacement, inequality β respect these imaginary lines. The border does not stop the storm, the hunger, or the algorithm.
π A new foundation: Belonging as a birthright.
We must reimagine community at the planetary scale.
Not as a global empire, but as a shared space where everyone has voice, worth, and presence β by virtue of simply being human.
We donβt need permission to belong. We need systems that reflect it.
π§ What comes next?
We dream, we assemble, we act.
We build political frameworks that reflect this deeper truth: That to live on Earth is to belong to Earth.
Letβs redraw the map β not of territories, but of shared responsibility, care, and dignity.