Janel Comeauthe entire concept of passports is weird, you try to visit a slightly different piece of the planet you were born on and then somebody goes "woah woah woah, first I need to see a very small booklet"
Albert CardonaI call passports the branded cattle concept: this one is mine, this one is from your herd. Can’t cross the barbed wire, wouldn’t know who has rights over you—as opposed to you having rights. The very concept of citizenship is awkward; a leftover from the war between settlers and nomads, which the former won.
Passports are also an admission of societal failure: there’s this expectation that without the walled garden the status quo would crumble. Every time I use my passport I see the seams of the veil over our eyes, how thin and fragile and yet how strong the illusion that blinds our minds.