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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Is it really yours?

If you 'own' a piece of property, is it really yours?  I mean after all, some one else 'owned' it before you did and someone else will 'own' it after you do.  So what makes this moment in time the most important of ownerships?  It would seem to me that each piece of land should be thought more to be held in trust for all of humanity and the current day 'owner' as caretaker from one 'owner' to another.  After all, we all share in the world we live in, we all breath the same air, drink from the same water cycle, and all in all, inhabit the same spaces throughout and over time.  So why is it that at this one time, that this one space is more important than any other?

It is not 'yours', it is the worlds.  It is not even humanities as animals, plants, and insects all inhabit that space that some currently recognized 'legal' entity of the day says is yours - yet these creatures don't claim lordship over it.  They don't try to tell you what can and can't be done there.  All property should be viewed as being maintained in trust for and from, previous and future, generations of inhabitants - of all species.

That land is not yours, that is only what we have been taught to think of it as.  Property ownership is simply a temporary right of use.  We should learn to respect the history of that space, and leave it in good condition for the future use of it...  We each own nothing, because we all use everything...

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