[Sense of ownership and social status]
Here is another idea turned into a situation in the monetary system.
Many of you think that the monitor you're looking at now is yours,
the room in which you live in belongs to your apartment
and the car in the garage is also yours.
Sorry to say but the only prove you have
that those are yours, are some documents.
Remember what these documents are.
Only papers.
Human imagination works overtime here
because not only those who "own" these kind of objects
trough documents feel like they own them,
but others also accept them as yours.
I mean, if you buy a car
the neighbor by the power of imagination admits that it's yours
in a same way you admit it belongs to you.
It's a very risky deal based only on imagination.
You cant own anything. Keep it in mind.
The sense of property or ownership has gone mad
and many people collect objects in their nests that they don't use
or use rarely.
Just think about the decor objects.
Some unnecessary things, but things that people buy.
The sense of property makes you your own prisoner
since you only own one house or even more,
because you are forced to go back to those places,
also you feel obligated to take care of those objects
which you think are yours.
Most times people are driven by things, goods,
and they build their lives around them.
I would have been out here a little bit sooner,
but they gave me the wrong dressing room
and I couldn't find a place to put my stuff.
And I don't know how you are, but I need place to put my stuff.
So, that's what I've been doing back there. Just trying to find a place for my stuff.
You know how important that is. That's the whole meaning of life. Isn't it?
Trying to find a place for your stuff.
That's all your house is. Your house is just a place for your stuff.
If you didn't have so much god damn stuff you wouldn't need a house.
You'd be just walking around all the time.
That's all your house is. It's a pile of stuff with a cover on it.
You see that when you take off in an airplane and you look down
and you see everybody's got a little pile of stuff.
Everybody's got their own pile of stuff.
And when you leave your stuff you gotta lock it up.
You don't want somebody to come by and take some of your stuff.
They always take the good stuff.
They don't bother with that crap you're saving.
Ain't nobody interested in your 4th grade arithmetic papers.
They are looking for the good stuff.
That's all your house is. Its a place to keep your stuff
while you go out and get more stuff.
Now sometimes you gotta move. You gotta get a bigger house.
Why? Too much stuff!
You gotta move all your stuff.
And maybe put some of your stuff in storage.
Imagine that. There is a whole industry based on keeping and eye on your stuff.
Enough about your stuff. Let's talk about other people's stuff.
Did you ever noticed when you go to somebody else's house
you never feel like a hundred percent at home?
You know why? No room for your stuff.
Somebody else's stuff is all over the place.
And what awful stuff it is.
Where did they get this stuff?
And if you have to stay over night at someone's house you know unexpectedly
and they give you a little room to sleep that they don't use that often.
Someone died in here eleven years ago?
And they haven't moved any of his stuff.
Or wherever they give you to sleep, usually right here at the bed
there is a dresser and there is never any room on the dresser for your stuff.
Someone's shit is on the dresser.
Have you noticed that their stuff is shit and your shit is stuff?
Now sometimes you go on vacation. You gotta bring some of your stuff with you.
You cant bring all your stuff.
Just the stuff you really like.
The stuff that fits you well that month.
Lets say you gonna go to Honolulu. You gonna go all the way to Honolulu.
You gonna have to take two big bags of stuff.
Plus you carry on stuff. Plus the stuff in your pockets.
You go al the way to Honolulu and when you get into your hotel room
and you start to put away all your stuff. That's the first thing we do in a hotel room
is to put away your stuff.
Hey we got more places than we've got stuff.
We gonna have to buy more stuff.
And you put all your stuff away and you know that you are thousands of miles form home
and you don't feel quite ease but you know that you must be OK
because you do have some of your stuff with you.
And you relax in Honolulu on that basis...
That's when your friend from Maui calls and says...
Hey why don't you come over to Maui for the weekend.
Spend a couple of nights over here.
Of shit, noo...
Now what stuff do you bring?
Right. You've gotta bring an even smaller version of your stuff.
Just enough stuff for a weekend on Maui.
And you get over... And you are really spread out now.
You've got shit all over the world.
You've got stuff a t home, stuff in the storage, stuff in Honolulu,
stuff in Maui, stuff in your pockets.
Supply lines are getting longer and harder to maintain.
The sense of property is normal for the monetary system
which by nature is based on consumption.
The hallucinating part is represented by those who admit parts of the earth
as their own.
Countries, cities, gardens, lands, private beaches, plantations
are considered as being properties. As belongings to someone.
And all in the same system that provides some papers with a old language attached
as the only evidence all based on imagination.
The sense of property makes you care about certain objects
and when other take those objects from you it creates a conflict.
Because the monetary system is based on this consumption
it doesn't offer any such object for free
even though it's never owned anything.
Trough the sense of property many people own objects they don't need
that others could benefit from or even objects they seldom use.
But an exchange is not possible in the monetary system
without any submission from one of the two parties.
The sense of property is developed by the desire of consumption
perpetuated by the monetary system.
Social status is another imagination and it's directly related to the sense of property.
People imagine that they climb an imaginary ladder when they buy certain objects,
when they complete a college course or have a job.
It's a fantasy that can only exist in system that constantly wants competitive consumers.
Remember. No matter that you have five cars, houses, expensive watches,
gold, money. You are doctor, lawyer, teacher, mechanic, salesman.
All are just imagination. Only that.
All are just some extension of the human being.
Like technology or information.
Technology seen in objects and information in education.
You are a human being who has access to a certain technology.
House, car, television, computer, and certain information.
School, college, experience, books, teachings etc.
Only that.
Non of this makes you better than another human being
especially in an unjust system.
When they say all men are created equal, that bothers me.
I told you. Some are thin, some are heavy, some have better eye sight then others.
I don't know what that means.
But I think they are trying to tell equal opportunity and I know that doesn't exist.
If you don't have the money into college
the words equal opportunities mean nothing.
So all I've been hearing about in this country is our differences.
That's all the media and the politicians are ever talking about.
The things that separate us.
Things that makes us different from one another.
That's the way the ruling class operates in any society.
They try to divide the rest of the people.
They keep the lower and the middle classes fighting with each other
so that they, the rich could run off with all the fucking money.
Fairly simple thing happens to work.
You know, anything different. That's what they gonna talk about.
Race, religion, ethnic and national background, jobs, income, education,
social status, sexuality.
Anything they can do is keep us fighting with each other
so that they can keep going to the bank.
You know, I describe the economic and social classes in this country?
The upper class keeps all of the money, pays non of the taxes.
The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work.
The poor are there, just to scare the shit out of the middle class.
Keep on showing out on those jobs!
The monetary system has created a race trough this social ladder
and it's strange that no one asks what is the ultimate price.
For what is this fight and what is the purpose of this race?
Now my grandmother was a wonderful person.
She taught me how to play the game Monopoly.
She understood that the name of the game is to acquire.
She would accumulate everything she could and eventually
she became the master or the board.
And eventually every time she would take my last dollar
and I would quit in utter defeat.
And then she would always say the same thing to me.
She looked at me and said.
One day you'll learn to play the game.
One summer i played the game of Monopoly with a neighbor almost every day.
All day long. We played Monopoly for hours.
And that summer I learned to play the game.
I came to understanding that the only way to win is
to make a total commitment to acquisition.
I came to understand that money and possessions that's the way to keep score.
And by the end of that summer I was more ruthless than my grandmother.
I was ready to bend the rules if I had to to win that game.
And I sat down with her to play that fall.
I took everything she had.
I destroyed her financially and psychologically.
I watched here give here last dollar and quit in utter defeat.
And the she had one more thing to teach me.
Then she said.
Now it all goes back in the box.
All those houses and hotels.
All the railroads and utility companies.
All that property and all that wonderful money.
Now it all goes back in the box.
I didn't want it to go back in the box!
No she said. None of those were really yours.
You got all heated up about it for a while.
But it was around a long time before you sat down at the board ...
and it will be here after you're gone, "players come, players go"
but it all goes back in the box
Houses and cars...
titles and clothes...
...even your body".
Because the fact is that everything I clutch and consume and hoard...
is going to go back in the box and I'm going to lose it all.
So you have to ask yourself...
when you finally get the ultimate promotion,
when you have made the ultimate purchase ...
when you buy the ultimate home ...
when you have stored up financial security and climbed the ladder of success
to the highest rung you can possibly climb it,
and the thrill wears off ...
"and it will wear off" ...
then what?
How far do you have to walk down that road
before you see where it leads?
Surely you understand it will never be enough.
So you have to ask yourself the question:
What matters?
[ Alternative Solutions ]
[ 1) Abundance of goods and services / 2) Education ]
To remove this social race
you must get rid of the inequality between people
through producing an abundance of goods and services,
so no one would hold anything
but only would use these objects or services.
In fact if there was an abundance of goods and services
we wouldn't need currency,
it won't be necessary,
and so there would be fewer jobs
and through education the people would get rid of the feeling of competition and arrogance.
It's really hilarious to see how human beings are their own prisoners
through pure imagination.
It is strange how humans behave like photocopiers,
once they have established perceptions about their world
they perpetuate those perceptions and resist any change to them.
You are not an intelligent life form
if you trap yourself with technology and information that you created.