What would the world be like without borders?

Let’s see– you would have territories instead, where your kinship group did its primary food-gathering. And periodically you’d have wars with other kinship groups who gathered their own food nearby over those territories. Those wars would be brutal and no-prisoners.

There are a lot of people who forget that not all borders were drawn by white guys sitting at a table parcelling up countries they were never going to live in. The people actually living in those countries already had their own established borders– white guys simply ignored those peoples’ own border-making decisions, not invented the conception of borders where previously there was none. The white man’s invented a lot of damaging stuff, but don’t give him any credit for ‘borders’.

War is about resources– borders are a decision by multiple kin groups, tribes or countries to not fight a war over particular resources. Resources are always going to be scarce.

Everyone has borders or territory they fight for or assign others to defend. You can have two tribes of ten people each– they’ve got territories they get into periodic war over.

A world without borders is called ‘Life Before Agriculture’.