Every time I take an international trip and reinforce my physical sense of the world as a single, connected physical planet (views out the window of vast oceans, continental shores etc) I am reminded of the utter bullshittiness of anti-globalism... (1/few)
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Whenever I'm tempted to forget this and take dumbass nationalist boundaries and reified egregores too seriously, I consider animals and their ways of being on the planet. Like Arctic Terns that migrate 70,000 km roundtrips from pole to pole WITHOUT EVER GOING TO DAVOS (5/few)
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Or cats, which have colonized earth as well as humans. Or erupting volcanoes that affect weather 1000s of km away. Or New World vegetables that are now part of cuisines worldwide. Earth is a far more deeply connected place than our *political* experience of it suggests (6/few)
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tldr: Don't let shitty people with limited perspectives tell you that wanting to experience the planet as a single place is an evil thing or that their maps are the territory. (end/few)
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