I think I understand more clearly why I find the ownership concept - TopicsExpress

I think I understand more clearly why I find the ownership concept so objectionable. It really is just a manifestation of hyper-reductionism. I know the value of cutting things down into manageable sizes - it helps us isolate a smaller system within a greater system and examine it more closely. However, at the end of the day and the end of the analysis, it needs to be realized that they are truely connected. So ownership just seems to be another facet of division - just like nationality or various religious factions, it relies on arbitrary and subjectively drawn lines. And like all other arbitrarily designated lines, it justifies atrocious behaviors. The same way a murdering sociopath would prevent empathy through the rationale of them vs. me, ownership allows for theirs vs. mine. This phenomenon would even carry over to collective ownership, with the rationale then just becoming theirs vs. ours. This is why I reject the ownership assumption outright. It is given life by the subjective lines. If you declare the whole world and everything in it owned by everyone, you have effectively rendered the ownership notion null and void, beyond sentiment. With the discontinuation of the subjectively drawn lines goes the utility of money. There is nothing to be traded, only abundance to be shared. The value set has to be altered in total - we cant keep portions of it and expect it to last. The social diseases of war, famine, poverty, and so on are given rise from our failure to acknowledge infinite interconnection - our creating of fictitious separations. What amazes me the most is how much of our time and energy is being wasted on the fictitious lines, on upholding them and bickering over where they lie - because nobodys interpretation can be correct, they dont really exist. We spend so much of our lives, nearly all of it for most of us, bogged down in this collective delusion, and its not even a fantastic dream of a delusion, its a dystopia.