A world without borders, flags and national anthems

Its been in my thinking for a long time now (perhaps because I've been an immigrant all of my life, living in 5 countries now), how ridiculous and anachronistic it is that we have borders.

Where is the logic and the sanity and the compassion in a world that is divided up into regions by invisible lines in the sand and ocean, where, if you are born one foot on this side of that invisible line you have a certain kind of life, and if you are born one foot on the other side of that line you have another kind of life.... where one's lot in life is basically decreed by a geographical accident of birth.... and where some people get to control the majority of the resources on the planet and others get to do without????   Where is the equity and compassion in all of that...

And borders and flags and anthems and patriotism all lead us to separate ourselves from the 'others' and give us cause to make the other an enemy and to criticise and to disparage and to exploit and to fight and to exterminate....

Where is the compassion in all of that?

Isnt it time we did away with this ridiculously outdated notion of countries and national interests?

We are living in an interconnected web... what we do/how we live here in the web affects someone/something elsewhere in the web.   When we take more than we need on a moment by moment basis, when we claim our 'rights' to a certain lifestyle/degree of comfort, because we are living in a closed system, someone, somewhere else has to pay the price/do without... Where is the compassion in that????   Who thinks of that when they are shopping at Walmart or Costco?