We, Citizens Without Borders, are the current generations of ancient migrating hunters and gatherers who began our collective inherited legacy, hundreds-of-thousands of years ago. These distant ancestors migrated from the Asian continent, following the sun westward to maximize daylight, while searching for and hunting nourishment. By heading west, the migrants unknowingly crossed over to what would become the European continent using two general paths. Those who favored colder climate found adequate sustenance as they arrived in places that would become modern Poland, Germany, France and beyond. Those who were lured by a warmer climate, or perhaps merely followed the prey and vegetation that blossomed at the end of the last ice age, walked along the shores of what would one day be called the Caspian and Black Seas, ultimately landing on what would eventually become known as the Balkan Peninsula.

Those unfortunate souls who migrated along the southern route became trapped by an environment that prevented them from continuing to search for an ample food source. With steep, rocky mountains blocking further passage to the north, and what would become the Mediterranean Sea blocking them to the east, south and west, the migrants who had yet to learn to swim, found themselves trapped in a place far worse than where they had migrated from. Was this to be their end? Desperation being the occasional mother of invention, the unlucky new Balkan arrivals survived by consuming the sea creatures around them. Imagine the first starving migrant resorting to consuming a lobster—without garlic, butter and lemon. Each new day brought the prospect of it being their last day.

Despite the scarcity of food, these hearty Balkan settlers survived and flourished as the strange sea creatures were a good source of protein. More family groups survived, and families grew into clans. Settlements of clans began to emerge close to the shores that provided their sustenance. The entire Balkan Peninsula whose inhabitants would eventually call Elláda, became crowded with settlements alongside its shoreline—a  shoreline that in a remote future, would only be exceeded in length by what would become modern China.

At some point, however, the local seaside populations grew large enough that the sea creatures they generally referred to as psári, became overfished. Starvation increased. Once again, desperation came to the rescue by inspiring them to construct vessels that would float so they could fish further off-shore. The more the population grew, the larger the vessels had to be constructed to fish further out to sea, where the psária, were larger and in greater quantities.

With more vessels spending their days on the sea, those who fished, would collectively learn to use common words to describe things they saw and experienced. Eventually, their common use of words became the beginnings of their language they called, Elliniká. At some point, when they had formed enough common words to refer to as a language, they would begin to call themselves, Éllines. The future English translation of what they called themselves would be “Hellenes.” A people who learned to face the hardship of each new day as if it were their last.

As their vessels became larger and more seaworthy, the adventurous Hellenes began to sail along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and discover other peoples who had developed in different ways. Eventually, with so many Hellenes sailing to other continents and cultures, the concept of trade was born. And, because there were so many more Hellenes who sailed the seas than any other culture, the Hellenes would become the default “masters of the sea.” A logical consequence would follow that Elliniká would emerge as the default language of international trade. These adventurous Hellenes would expand their reach by forming more than a thousand settlements and colonies in all of the lands that surrounded the Mediterranean seas.

The Hellenic Diaspora

With its roots dating back more than 10,000-years, the Hellenes explored the Mediterranean world, and in many cases, fulfilled their wanderlust by settling in places far from their home base in Elláda. One of the more well-known places they settled was the large island of Crete, about 250 miles north of Egypt. A British historian would later try to convince his fellow academics that the island of Crete was inhabited by a previously unknown civilization—which he named the Minoans, after the Ancient Greek myth about King Minos who fed children to the Minotaur—a mythical creature with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man. Logic and reason would eventually cause his colleagues to debunk his bizarre notion, as the inhabitants of Crete, the Cretans, had always been Éllines, who spoke Elliniká, and were clearly descendants of the original migrants who were from the Balkan Peninsula.

Over the 10-millennia that the diaspora of the Hellenes has continued unabated, it is most likely that the original Hellenes have overspread the world in a way that suggests most inhabitants of earth have part of the original genome that came from the original Balkan migrants who settled and assimilated into other cultures. The current results of entities that market the ancestry of an individual’s heritage, appear to confirm this theory. Thus, it is quite possible that everyone that is currently alive on planet Earth, has, as part of his or her biochemistry, characteristics that are inherited from the original Éllines who overspread the ancient world.

Our Current Circumstance

If you consider the fact that our physiology is essentially the same as those hunter/gatherers that walked over to Europe, the only notable differences between us and those who walked the earth 10,000 years ago, are the innovations that were discovered and improved upon along the way. There were individuals, who were academically gifted, who became physicians, educators, lawyers, and politicians, just like we have today. There were others who were scientifically gifted, who became mathematicians, scientists, astronomers, engineers, and builders, just like we have today. The consequential difference between us and those who lived thousands of years ago, are the technological innovations that evolved from curious individuals who sought to “make something better.” You may be among the majority of those living now, who prefer the state of technology today over what they would be exposed to back then. But even so, you would have to acknowledge that technology has advanced so far as to make us slaves to the machines that make our lives easier or give us our distractions from the realities of life. Consider the negative effects on our youth from their obsession with social media. We know the effects on these young minds are destructive, but we seem to do nothing as a culture to eliminate the negative effects, or punish those who ignore humanity in search of ever-greater financial rewards. That, as a culture, is our compelling problem that will destroy Western culture and surrender it to those who have embraced the dark side.

The only solution for those of us who are citizens of the United States, is the same solution for those who stood in the Athenian meeting place. In democratic republics, citizens must take active responsibility to remove those representatives who choose to follow their own conscience (or greed) as opposed to representing the collective conscience of their constituency. CWB is an innovation that brings those who wish to further civilize life, become the most effective and powerful lobby to remove those who should not be our representatives. They work for us and we can remove them on Election Day.

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