I think we have a tendency (necessity?) to establish borders; not only geo-politically speaking, but through our speeches and argumentation strategies in order to make sense of our existence. I once had the opportunity to read some very interesting anthropological studies about people's ability to generate new cultural trends by assembling two or three different cultural behaviors in a new form of expression (James Lull, www.jameslull.com). In fact, we see it all the time through the internet, for instance: our own kids are generating new words and meanings that reflect their cosmo-vision that are far more complex than ours. My son has a couple of friends identified as sisters/brothers, and they really mean it, challenging the borders of family definitions itself!!!
In this talk, Political Scientist Parag Khanna proposes a different comprehension about borders... it made me think about how we create - through our argumentation strategies - borders that prove illusory afterwords, and maybe we are not fully aware of the consequences of doing so... just like the politicians that tried to establish borders that caused people's suffering and oppression, we ourselves may be helping to create oppressive environments around us through our communication strategies.
I hope this talk will be inspiring to you as well!
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/645
Love, Renata
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