The Right to Travel

Everybody has the right to travel. The United Nations Declarations on Human Rights article 13(2) signed in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly says that - Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country. However, if I, a brown man from a third world country tried to leave his pigpen to a first world open enclosure I’d be detained, stripped (of both my clothes and human rights) and imprisoned or sent via military plane to the same hellhole I tried to leave, or if I enter the country following its complex rules and procedures (designed to keep me out) I would at best be a second class citizen with far too many restrictions to do any good. Culturally turning me into a servant, a position crystallised by policies designed to keep me as such for generations.
But, and here’s the caveat to this ‘right’ - If I’m white or white adjacent (other races that inhabit a first world country) I can waltz into any country I please. I am welcomed everywhere I go, simply being in my presence is like basking in the light of God, my accent is currency, and any harm to my person is an international incident. This is the passport apartheid regime upheld by the ‘rules based international order’.
The right to travel is a fundamental right that every nitwit, swindler, adventurer and highwayman took for granted (and enjoyed) for centuries before the enlightenment, and the coming of nation-states, before people were walled into giant cattle ranches, awaiting slaughter. They traveled for a variety of reasons - to escape prejudice, punishment, economic hardship, natural calamities or simply to satiate the lust of travel. Why should I be denied that right, because of an accident of my birth? The right to travel is not simply a means to an economic end. I want to travel because I can, I want to be able to leave a country, go to the next one, and then leave that simply because I can. It gives my life meaning to travel. How is it fair that only westerners (and their asian vassals) get to see the world while I have to live it through them by proxy? How is it economically sensible to shackle individuals and deny them the right to exploit this incredible planet? How is it culturally sensible to deny intelligence from growing and learning from the sights, sounds and the experiences of travel? The case against the passport apartheid regime is just - how many millions of highly intelligent people have perished? Simply because they didn’t have the skills necessary to escape the prison pens they were born into? How many suffered in places they couldn’t leave? Denying the right to travel has cost the human race. By how much, we will never know.
Is there a solution to this? Yes there is, but it is unfortunately far too difficult to enact. Every nation not in the G7 (which includes Canada, US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the EU) should form an economic bloc. This would include all of South America, Central America and Mexico, Africa, West Asia (excluding Israel), Russia, the Caucasus, and Asia (excluding Australia and New Zealand) - This economic bloc should ensure complete freedom of movement of people, goods, and ideas. Next, an ironclad blockade of the the G7 and its cronies, this includes denial of entry to its people, goods and communication (including military). Any trespass of this should be met with force.
What would be the result? Innumerable to list, but broadly - A new cultural, industrial and material renaissance unrivaled by the existing economic blocs. Free movement of people would facilitate a new age of exploration and industry aided by technology, scientific exploration, and mass availability of labour unencumbered by the west. Hitherto underdeveloped regions of Eastern Siberia and Central Africa would prosper as its citizens can either send money home or form industries which would bring in migration and a cultural re-invigoration. A new sense of self-esteem for the citizens of countries that routinely send migrants, individuals who felt trapped in places they were forced to be born into can leave and search for like-minded others, find community and belonging, but more importantly, find themselves. It also has a secondary advantage, one favourable to our new economic bloc - The west is already crumbling, the existing ‘rules based order’ decreed by the divine might of America has already gone past its zenith but no other country can replace it because it holds military-industrial dominance. The only way to replace it is to dominate through technological innovation (as has been the case throughout history). This cannot be done by any one country alone, especially not by China which is simply playing the same game that the dominant players have set, and being a closed economy means that it too will implode like the US. An economic challenge will not change the existing world order, complete rejuvenation requires a massive effort that will require all of humanity (except the west that will resist any change to its supremacy). A renaissance is required for change, and as the first world implodes from within (as is already happening) the loss of human capital, the fact that its own citizens cannot simply flee to the third world to escape domestic economic atrophy, and the loss of workers from the third world will turn these former rulers into third world countries rather quickly without a drop of blood being shed. As time passes and as citizens of our new economic bloc accumulate wealth, we would need slave labour for jobs we refuse to do. Irony will sail with the whites to Africa.
Is this feasible? No, emphatically no. Not unless the third world gives up its own subservience to the west, not until its people elect leaders that are not stooges or tin pot dictators looking to rule over tiny plots of land. It will take leaders with farsightedness and individuals who are willing to embrace intellectual fervour with an open mind. The first step in this direction is the ‘Right to travel’. To make this our new reality will require the third world give up their own ignorance and backwardness, borne of almost sycophantic obsequiousness, to give up their own ludicrous notions of ‘culture’ that are holding them back; if not, they will continue to resemble cattle cosplaying as human.
The right to travel is the right to an existence; and every citizen has the right to demand free movement, to and from, any territory they choose, and as a logical corollary, to stay for as long as and without prejudice anywhere they please. Without it, we will remain slaves to the passport apartheid regime.