the 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"

@VeryBadLlama @aishasie I can’t remember what exactly it was but recently I consumed a bit of scifi media where “we” met an alien race, they were from planet x and that was the whole conceptualisation; they together, from planet x, were a unit.

Then the story switched back to earth and they had to deal with borders and shit again.

Unfortunately that was not the point of the story, that could have been some interesting critique, but it was clear the author (seemingly) didn’t even think about it.

@h5e @VeryBadLlama Yeah. A lot of scifi media just blips us into a future where humanity has magically already become this one united front to participate as a whole in intergalactic events, skipping over what it took to get from our current fuckery to there. But I get it, I think this is the far bigger hurdle to imagine than all the tech.

@aishasie @VeryBadLlama Well that kind I kind of find optimistic in that we apparently found unity (only to find new others in space to go to war with but ok)

But this one had the united alien race, and then humanity still divided their planet up in stupid little countries