WEBVTT 00:00:04.500 --> 00:00:08.740 [Sense of ownership and social status] 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:15.000 Here is another idea turned into a situation in the monetary system. 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:21.000 Many of you think that the monitor you're looking at now is yours, 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:24.000 the room in which you live in belongs to your apartment 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:26.000 and the car in the garage is also yours. 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:31.000 Sorry to say but the only prove you have 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:34.000 that those are yours, are some documents. 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:37.000 Remember what these documents are. 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:38.000 Only papers. 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:42.000 Human imagination works overtime here 00:00:42.024 --> 00:00:45.876 because not only those who "own" these kind of objects 00:00:45.876 --> 00:00:49.958 trough documents feel like they own them, 00:00:49.958 --> 00:00:53.035 but others also accept them as yours. 00:00:53.054 --> 00:00:55.082 I mean, if you buy a car 00:00:56.009 --> 00:01:00.022 the neighbor by the power of imagination admits that it's yours 00:01:00.063 --> 00:01:03.070 in a same way you admit it belongs to you. 00:01:03.092 --> 00:01:07.073 It's a very risky deal based only on imagination. 00:01:08.023 --> 00:01:12.010 You cant own anything. Keep it in mind. 00:01:12.076 --> 00:01:16.054 The sense of property or ownership has gone mad 00:01:16.054 --> 00:01:20.095 and many people collect objects in their nests that they don't use 00:01:20.095 --> 00:01:21.375 or use rarely. 00:01:22.054 --> 00:01:24.092 Just think about the decor objects. 00:01:25.018 --> 00:01:28.000 Some unnecessary things, but things that people buy. 00:01:28.798 --> 00:01:31.553 The sense of property makes you your own prisoner 00:01:31.553 --> 00:01:35.045 since you only own one house or even more, 00:01:35.046 --> 00:01:37.940 because you are forced to go back to those places, 00:01:37.970 --> 00:01:41.120 also you feel obligated to take care of those objects 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:43.787 which you think are yours. 00:01:44.536 --> 00:01:47.217 Most times people are driven by things, goods, 00:01:47.217 --> 00:01:49.827 and they build their lives around them. 00:01:50.677 --> 00:01:52.752 I would have been out here a little bit sooner, 00:01:52.752 --> 00:01:54.462 but they gave me the wrong dressing room 00:01:54.462 --> 00:01:56.765 and I couldn't find a place to put my stuff. 00:01:56.765 --> 00:02:01.009 And I don't know how you are, but I need place to put my stuff. 00:02:01.009 --> 00:02:04.050 So, that's what I've been doing back there. Just trying to find a place for my stuff. 00:02:04.050 --> 00:02:07.073 You know how important that is. That's the whole meaning of life. Isn't it? 00:02:07.073 --> 00:02:09.065 Trying to find a place for your stuff. 00:02:10.056 --> 00:02:13.056 That's all your house is. Your house is just a place for your stuff. 00:02:13.056 --> 00:02:17.030 If you didn't have so much god damn stuff you wouldn't need a house. 00:02:17.066 --> 00:02:19.077 You'd be just walking around all the time. 00:02:20.006 --> 00:02:23.243 That's all your house is. It's a pile of stuff with a cover on it. 00:02:23.243 --> 00:02:26.009 You see that when you take off in an airplane and you look down 00:02:26.009 --> 00:02:27.094 and you see everybody's got a little pile of stuff. 00:02:27.094 --> 00:02:30.055 Everybody's got their own pile of stuff. 00:02:30.087 --> 00:02:32.099 And when you leave your stuff you gotta lock it up. 00:02:33.034 --> 00:02:36.078 You don't want somebody to come by and take some of your stuff. 00:02:37.018 --> 00:02:39.025 They always take the good stuff. 00:02:40.363 --> 00:02:42.659 They don't bother with that crap you're saving. 00:02:43.630 --> 00:02:46.080 Ain't nobody interested in your 4th grade arithmetic papers. 00:02:48.043 --> 00:02:50.046 They are looking for the good stuff. 00:02:50.069 --> 00:02:53.056 That's all your house is. Its a place to keep your stuff 00:02:53.056 --> 00:02:55.099 while you go out and get more stuff. 00:02:56.087 --> 00:03:01.011 Now sometimes you gotta move. You gotta get a bigger house. 00:03:01.011 --> 00:03:03.044 Why? Too much stuff! 00:03:04.065 --> 00:03:06.062 You gotta move all your stuff. 00:03:07.018 --> 00:03:09.075 And maybe put some of your stuff in storage. 00:03:10.081 --> 00:03:14.075 Imagine that. There is a whole industry based on keeping and eye on your stuff. 00:03:16.086 --> 00:03:19.087 Enough about your stuff. Let's talk about other people's stuff. 00:03:20.012 --> 00:03:22.080 Did you ever noticed when you go to somebody else's house 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:25.016 you never feel like a hundred percent at home? 00:03:25.016 --> 00:03:28.018 You know why? No room for your stuff. 00:03:28.018 --> 00:03:31.034 Somebody else's stuff is all over the place. 00:03:31.034 --> 00:03:34.034 And what awful stuff it is. 00:03:34.034 --> 00:03:37.028 Where did they get this stuff? 00:03:38.031 --> 00:03:41.059 And if you have to stay over night at someone's house you know unexpectedly 00:03:41.059 --> 00:03:44.086 and they give you a little room to sleep that they don't use that often. 00:03:45.053 --> 00:03:48.056 Someone died in here eleven years ago? 00:03:49.022 --> 00:03:51.090 And they haven't moved any of his stuff. 00:03:53.069 --> 00:03:56.016 Or wherever they give you to sleep, usually right here at the bed 00:03:56.016 --> 00:03:59.011 there is a dresser and there is never any room on the dresser for your stuff. 00:03:59.011 --> 00:04:02.061 Someone's shit is on the dresser. 00:04:02.061 --> 00:04:06.044 Have you noticed that their stuff is shit and your shit is stuff? 00:04:15.078 --> 00:04:20.082 Now sometimes you go on vacation. You gotta bring some of your stuff with you. 00:04:21.052 --> 00:04:23.050 You cant bring all your stuff. 00:04:23.082 --> 00:04:25.039 Just the stuff you really like. 00:04:25.039 --> 00:04:28.054 The stuff that fits you well that month. 00:04:29.089 --> 00:04:33.004 Lets say you gonna go to Honolulu. You gonna go all the way to Honolulu. 00:04:33.004 --> 00:04:35.031 You gonna have to take two big bags of stuff. 00:04:35.031 --> 00:04:39.000 Plus you carry on stuff. Plus the stuff in your pockets. 00:04:39.064 --> 00:04:42.000 You go al the way to Honolulu and when you get into your hotel room 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:44.051 and you start to put away all your stuff. That's the first thing we do in a hotel room 00:04:44.051 --> 00:04:45.055 is to put away your stuff. 00:04:52.052 --> 00:04:55.066 Hey we got more places than we've got stuff. 00:04:55.066 --> 00:04:59.010 We gonna have to buy more stuff. 00:05:08.018 --> 00:05:12.031 And you put all your stuff away and you know that you are thousands of miles form home 00:05:12.031 --> 00:05:15.020 and you don't feel quite ease but you know that you must be OK 00:05:15.020 --> 00:05:18.012 because you do have some of your stuff with you. 00:05:18.068 --> 00:05:22.049 And you relax in Honolulu on that basis... 00:05:22.068 --> 00:05:26.025 That's when your friend from Maui calls and says... 00:05:26.026 --> 00:05:28.019 Hey why don't you come over to Maui for the weekend. 00:05:28.019 --> 00:05:29.045 Spend a couple of nights over here. 00:05:30.052 --> 00:05:31.089 Of shit, noo... 00:05:33.010 --> 00:05:35.037 Now what stuff do you bring? 00:05:35.037 --> 00:05:39.026 Right. You've gotta bring an even smaller version of your stuff. 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:42.070 Just enough stuff for a weekend on Maui. 00:05:42.070 --> 00:05:46.020 And you get over... And you are really spread out now. 00:05:46.020 --> 00:05:48.022 You've got shit all over the world. 00:05:50.018 --> 00:05:53.025 You've got stuff a t home, stuff in the storage, stuff in Honolulu, 00:05:53.025 --> 00:05:54.072 stuff in Maui, stuff in your pockets. 00:05:54.072 --> 00:05:58.056 Supply lines are getting longer and harder to maintain. 00:06:03.663 --> 00:06:06.453 The sense of property is normal for the monetary system 00:06:06.453 --> 00:06:09.903 which by nature is based on consumption. 00:06:10.314 --> 00:06:14.039 The hallucinating part is represented by those who admit parts of the earth 00:06:14.039 --> 00:06:16.033 as their own. 00:06:17.007 --> 00:06:22.087 Countries, cities, gardens, lands, private beaches, plantations 00:06:22.087 --> 00:06:27.072 are considered as being properties. As belongings to someone. 00:06:27.072 --> 00:06:33.008 And all in the same system that provides some papers with a old language attached 00:06:33.008 --> 00:06:38.023 as the only evidence all based on imagination. 00:06:38.023 --> 00:06:42.069 The sense of property makes you care about certain objects 00:06:42.069 --> 00:06:46.033 and when other take those objects from you it creates a conflict. 00:06:46.070 --> 00:06:50.064 Because the monetary system is based on this consumption 00:06:50.064 --> 00:06:53.041 it doesn't offer any such object for free 00:06:53.041 --> 00:06:56.037 even though it's never owned anything. 00:06:56.092 --> 00:07:00.081 Trough the sense of property many people own objects they don't need 00:07:00.081 --> 00:07:05.002 that others could benefit from or even objects they seldom use. 00:07:05.002 --> 00:07:09.010 But an exchange is not possible in the monetary system 00:07:09.010 --> 00:07:12.087 without any submission from one of the two parties. 00:07:14.012 --> 00:07:17.091 The sense of property is developed by the desire of consumption 00:07:17.091 --> 00:07:20.043 perpetuated by the monetary system. 00:07:21.087 --> 00:07:27.050 Social status is another imagination and it's directly related to the sense of property. 00:07:27.077 --> 00:07:33.018 People imagine that they climb an imaginary ladder when they buy certain objects, 00:07:33.018 --> 00:07:36.086 when they complete a college course or have a job. 00:07:36.686 --> 00:07:43.039 It's a fantasy that can only exist in system that constantly wants competitive consumers. 00:07:43.093 --> 00:07:49.056 Remember. No matter that you have five cars, houses, expensive watches, 00:07:49.056 --> 00:07:56.068 gold, money. You are doctor, lawyer, teacher, mechanic, salesman. 00:07:56.068 --> 00:07:59.025 All are just imagination. Only that. 00:07:59.091 --> 00:08:02.081 All are just some extension of the human being. 00:08:02.081 --> 00:08:04.081 Like technology or information. 00:08:05.031 --> 00:08:09.092 Technology seen in objects and information in education. 00:08:10.068 --> 00:08:14.049 You are a human being who has access to a certain technology. 00:08:14.049 --> 00:08:17.049 House, car, television, computer, and certain information. 00:08:17.049 --> 00:08:24.091 School, college, experience, books, teachings etc. 00:08:24.091 --> 00:08:26.054 Only that. 00:08:26.054 --> 00:08:29.091 Non of this makes you better than another human being 00:08:29.091 --> 00:08:32.050 especially in an unjust system. 00:08:39.078 --> 00:08:43.012 When they say all men are created equal, that bothers me. 00:08:43.036 --> 00:08:47.052 I told you. Some are thin, some are heavy, some have better eye sight then others. 00:08:47.078 --> 00:08:49.039 I don't know what that means. 00:08:49.039 --> 00:08:55.024 But I think they are trying to tell equal opportunity and I know that doesn't exist. 00:08:56.034 --> 00:08:58.061 If you don't have the money into college 00:08:58.061 --> 00:09:01.044 the words equal opportunities mean nothing. 00:09:04.077 --> 00:09:06.071 So all I've been hearing about in this country is our differences. 00:09:06.071 --> 00:09:09.307 That's all the media and the politicians are ever talking about. 00:09:09.307 --> 00:09:10.735 The things that separate us. 00:09:10.735 --> 00:09:13.035 Things that makes us different from one another. 00:09:13.035 --> 00:09:15.096 That's the way the ruling class operates in any society. 00:09:16.055 --> 00:09:18.036 They try to divide the rest of the people. 00:09:18.086 --> 00:09:21.025 They keep the lower and the middle classes fighting with each other 00:09:21.025 --> 00:09:24.023 so that they, the rich could run off with all the fucking money. 00:09:25.007 --> 00:09:27.066 Fairly simple thing happens to work. 00:09:27.260 --> 00:09:29.094 You know, anything different. That's what they gonna talk about. 00:09:29.094 --> 00:09:34.003 Race, religion, ethnic and national background, jobs, income, education, 00:09:34.003 --> 00:09:36.008 social status, sexuality. 00:09:36.008 --> 00:09:38.050 Anything they can do is keep us fighting with each other 00:09:38.050 --> 00:09:40.071 so that they can keep going to the bank. 00:09:41.048 --> 00:09:44.054 You know, I describe the economic and social classes in this country? 00:09:44.274 --> 00:09:48.829 The upper class keeps all of the money, pays non of the taxes. 00:09:49.038 --> 00:09:52.062 The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. 00:09:53.049 --> 00:09:57.089 The poor are there, just to scare the shit out of the middle class. 00:09:59.050 --> 00:10:01.066 Keep on showing out on those jobs! 00:10:04.363 --> 00:10:08.066 The monetary system has created a race trough this social ladder 00:10:08.066 --> 00:10:12.080 and it's strange that no one asks what is the ultimate price. 00:10:13.021 --> 00:10:16.041 For what is this fight and what is the purpose of this race? 00:10:22.046 --> 00:10:24.083 Now my grandmother was a wonderful person. 00:10:25.041 --> 00:10:27.166 She taught me how to play the game Monopoly. 00:10:28.086 --> 00:10:32.012 She understood that the name of the game is to acquire. 00:10:32.073 --> 00:10:35.013 She would accumulate everything she could and eventually 00:10:35.013 --> 00:10:38.034 she became the master or the board. 00:10:38.097 --> 00:10:41.061 And eventually every time she would take my last dollar 00:10:41.061 --> 00:10:43.011 and I would quit in utter defeat. 00:10:43.683 --> 00:10:46.130 And then she would always say the same thing to me. 00:10:46.130 --> 00:10:47.530 She looked at me and said. 00:10:47.746 --> 00:10:51.025 One day you'll learn to play the game. 00:10:51.095 --> 00:10:54.082 One summer i played the game of Monopoly with a neighbor almost every day. 00:10:54.082 --> 00:10:56.099 All day long. We played Monopoly for hours. 00:10:56.853 --> 00:11:00.025 And that summer I learned to play the game. 00:11:00.391 --> 00:11:03.143 I came to understanding that the only way to win is 00:11:03.143 --> 00:11:05.633 to make a total commitment to acquisition. 00:11:05.633 --> 00:11:10.034 I came to understand that money and possessions that's the way to keep score. 00:11:10.875 --> 00:11:14.374 And by the end of that summer I was more ruthless than my grandmother. 00:11:14.474 --> 00:11:18.011 I was ready to bend the rules if I had to to win that game. 00:11:18.774 --> 00:11:21.051 And I sat down with her to play that fall. 00:11:22.064 --> 00:11:23.585 I took everything she had. 00:11:23.585 --> 00:11:26.315 I destroyed her financially and psychologically. 00:11:26.315 --> 00:11:30.015 I watched here give here last dollar and quit in utter defeat. 00:11:31.419 --> 00:11:35.012 And the she had one more thing to teach me. 00:11:36.075 --> 00:11:38.029 Then she said. 00:11:39.852 --> 00:11:42.161 Now it all goes back in the box. 00:11:45.580 --> 00:11:48.017 All those houses and hotels. 00:11:48.572 --> 00:11:50.876 All the railroads and utility companies. 00:11:50.876 --> 00:11:55.356 All that property and all that wonderful money. 00:11:55.698 --> 00:11:58.045 Now it all goes back in the box. 00:12:00.682 --> 00:12:03.036 I didn't want it to go back in the box! 00:12:04.369 --> 00:12:09.020 No she said. None of those were really yours. 00:12:10.097 --> 00:12:12.505 You got all heated up about it for a while. 00:12:13.337 --> 00:12:16.845 But it was around a long time before you sat down at the board ... 00:12:17.430 --> 00:12:21.424 and it will be here after you're gone, "players come, players go" 00:12:22.533 --> 00:12:25.140 but it all goes back in the box 00:12:26.160 --> 00:12:28.232 Houses and cars... 00:12:29.114 --> 00:12:31.650 titles and clothes... 00:12:32.364 --> 00:12:37.091 ...even your body". 00:12:37.913 --> 00:12:41.798 Because the fact is that everything I clutch and consume and hoard... 00:12:41.898 --> 00:12:44.989 is going to go back in the box and I'm going to lose it all. 00:12:48.844 --> 00:12:50.617 So you have to ask yourself... 00:12:50.677 --> 00:12:52.790 when you finally get the ultimate promotion, 00:12:52.800 --> 00:12:54.394 when you have made the ultimate purchase ... 00:12:54.394 --> 00:12:56.079 when you buy the ultimate home ... 00:12:56.079 --> 00:13:00.260 when you have stored up financial security and climbed the ladder of success 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:03.293 to the highest rung you can possibly climb it, 00:13:03.808 --> 00:13:05.988 and the thrill wears off ... 00:13:06.711 --> 00:13:09.526 "and it will wear off" ... 00:13:10.101 --> 00:13:12.439 then what? 00:13:13.569 --> 00:13:15.784 How far do you have to walk down that road 00:13:15.884 --> 00:13:18.018 before you see where it leads? 00:13:20.962 --> 00:13:26.046 Surely you understand it will never be enough. 00:13:26.809 --> 00:13:29.435 So you have to ask yourself the question: 00:13:30.158 --> 00:13:33.567 What matters? 00:13:39.107 --> 00:13:45.905 [ Alternative Solutions ] 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:54.090 [ 1) Abundance of goods and services / 2) Education ] 00:13:56.598 --> 00:13:58.220 To remove this social race 00:13:58.220 --> 00:14:01.870 you must get rid of the inequality between people 00:14:01.870 --> 00:14:05.070 through producing an abundance of goods and services, 00:14:05.219 --> 00:14:07.092 so no one would hold anything 00:14:07.092 --> 00:14:10.442 but only would use these objects or services. 00:14:10.442 --> 00:14:13.088 In fact if there was an abundance of goods and services 00:14:13.188 --> 00:14:15.823 we wouldn't need currency, 00:14:16.298 --> 00:14:17.725 it won't be necessary, 00:14:17.825 --> 00:14:19.576 and so there would be fewer jobs 00:14:19.676 --> 00:14:47.900 and through education the people would get rid of the feeling of competition and arrogance. 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:51.855 It's really hilarious to see how human beings are their own prisoners 00:14:51.955 --> 00:14:54.252 through pure imagination. 00:14:54.352 --> 00:14:57.771 It is strange how humans behave like photocopiers, 00:14:57.871 --> 00:15:00.625 once they have established perceptions about their world 00:15:00.725 --> 00:15:05.084 they perpetuate those perceptions and resist any change to them. 00:15:06.095 --> 00:15:08.602 You are not an intelligent life form 00:15:08.702 --> 00:15:16.510 if you trap yourself with technology and information that you created.