1/ Tricky question: what is the opposite of a “border”? The typical fearful-right idea of a non-border is a vague fear of a massive flood of people, suggesting a dam-like containment of pressure. The idea of developing world “overpopulation” encourages this mental model.
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you’re ignoring the function and role of the state. The border demarcates the state’s territorial domain. also your assertion that US culture is isolationist is distorted. it’s not American culture you refute, but a particular group of Americans who currently control the state
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And yes I’m ignoring the state for the moment, because the nation part of nation-state is ascendant right now, and wagging the state piece.

