[We might imagine that the word “property” taps into the archaic attribute of “holding onto some things and letting others go”.<\/p>\n
However, the word only belongs to a system of differences.\u00a0 Rousseau depicted the difference this way:<\/p>\n
“Private property” is the same as “civilization” and different than … “what?” … “collective ownership and utopia (a stand in for ‘the Lebenswelt that we evolved in’)”?<\/p>\n
Rousseau’s difference is precisely the opposite of how “private property” should be differentiated.\u00a0 “Private property” is the same as “freedom” and different than “ownership by elites of the thinkgroup<\/sup>” and “slavery”.\u00a0 There is no “utopia” where a person is “free” and “ownership is collective”.<\/p>\n But there is “the Lebenswelt that we evolved in”, where “belonging to the group was more important than any thing that you could hold onto”.\u00a0 Is that the same as “collective ownership”? \u00a0Is that the same as, “The collective is more important than anything that we can hold onto and call our own.”?<\/p>\n All forms of collectivism appeal for a return to \u201cthe Lebenswelt before speech-alone talk\u201d because that is precisely the world that we evolved in.\u00a0 We innately anticipate this Lebenswelt.\u00a0 We feel its presence in our bones. Our genes script proteins that enable cells to construct bodies that tell us that this wonderful Lebenswelt would be there, if only \u2026 what?\u00a0 If only we destroyed our current Lebenswelt?<\/p>\n The unspeakable premise is that, if we annihilate our current civilization, \u201cthe Lebenswelt that we evolved in\u201d will magically appear.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, that is precisely the world that we can never return to.\u00a0 Whenever the words \u201ccollective\u201d or \u201cideal\u201d are used, there is a thinkgroup<\/sup> that has no appreciation of the primal nature of its appeal.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [We might imagine that the word “property” taps into the archaic attribute of “holding onto some things and letting others go”. However, the word only belongs to a system of differences.\u00a0 Rousseau depicted the difference this way: “Private property” is the same as “civilization” and different than … “what?” … “collective ownership and utopia (a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n