(h) TROM - 2.19 Sense of ownership and social status

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TROM (The Reality of Me) represents the biggest documentary ever created, it is also the only one that tries to analyse everything : from science to the monetary system as well as real solutions to improve everyone's life.

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"Before the Big-Bang, till present, and beyond."
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[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.