Closing Borders Until Nothing’s Left

Wealthier countries close their borders against each other and rigidize themselves against lower-GDP nations, when it wasn’t that long ago that folks from the second smallest continent fled their poverty for the “Terra nullius” of the Americas, South Africa and Australasia (only to run over the aboriginal peoples of both landforms in the process).

Too bad that there aren’t many other places in the world where the “huddled masses” can go to “breathe free”. There is no Terra nullius to which the “wretched refuse” of color can find the sort of liberty which White European settlers once found in abundance, at least without stepping on the heads of those who are already resident.

Oh, and let’s not forget that our aggravation of climate change threatens to mess things up a bit for a while for everyone.

If nativist nationalists and their tightened borders/fences/walls are to prevail at some point, where can the migrant turn? Virtual worlds? Antarctica? Deserts? Mass suicide?

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