Monday, May 30, 2011

No More "Private Property"=Revolution

     Try this idea on for size:  No one has any right to any entitlement to any portion of any part of planet Earth.  No one owns any property.  Property is a made up concept that is not serving humanity and must be discarded.
     Before you automatically disregard it as impossible, unrealistic, idealistic or insane,; think about it.  Who gave anyone the idea that they could own the Earth?  And who gave them the authority to behave as if that belief was true?  And why do we all continue to allow it to go on like this?
     At the bottom of it all, and building all the rungs on this ladder to hell, is fear.  Fear of not having enough.  Fear for survival.
     But let's back up a moment.  Imagine that it is the truth that no one owns the Earth.  That it is actually impossible to own any part of the land, the aina, the being named Gaia.  (Unless you want to be a slave owner, which I would hope that no one would want to be.)  So imagining this, imagine that everyone, every human living on the Earth, gave up all of their imagined entitlement to any part of the Earth.  Everyone simultaneously stops paying all mortgages, rents and taxes on all now dissolved properties.  No one anywhere owns or controls any part of Earth, including what humans dub her "resources."
     What would happen?  I imagine that many people would move around some and then resettle in a place that felt right for them.  People with a lot of property, ie. wealth, would probably need to scale down a  bit.  And people with little or no imagined "property entitlement" might move out of a slum or a ghetto or a city and find a more comfortable place to access clean air, water and soil for growing food and families.  People might congregate in groups that felt supportive, without the conflict over who has the authority over the land where they live together.  The investment would be in time, care, skills and energy offered.  People would need to learn how to share and cooperate!
     If people did not need to leave home to work to make money to pay their rent or mortgage, what would they do?  Those expenses are often a large portion of income.  Would we be more free to do what we love?  Would we join with others in the simple pleasures of growing food and building the communities from the ground up?

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