PROEM & POEM No. 107 - What Are Possessions
What are possessions if not a flat screen, pair of new shoes, latest cell phone or laptop, music downloads or records, concert or basketball tickets, can of corn, loaf of bread, bag of potatoes, dinner and wine at a restaurant, espresso at a cafe, bottle of good rye, wardrobe closet full of clothes, car, home, land supporting crop and livestock, even money in pocket, checking/savings, retirement plans, business investments and (near) endlessly more, but symbolic of personal time, that is to say, laboriously spent X-number of hours, days, weeks, months or years therefore unknown percentage(s) of unknown lifespan. More than symbolic however, for these possessions cannot be divorced from human time expended to produce initially from raw resources, later exchanged for other goods, services, metals and/or monies also intimately married to barterers or buyers’ human time.
To describe the aforementioned as “intimately married” is literally referring to all goods’ metaphoric yet quite actual coition between scarce labor-over-time and scarce resources, thus the former unavoidably applied to the latter to convert something unusable to something usable even tradable or sellable. Consequently, what is more “intimate” or personal than one’s unknown lifespan from womb to tomb, therefore time limited, time continuous, time irrecoverable. It is by this dynamic and innate understanding since the evolution or creation of the specie human, moral distinctions were clearly made when gathering sticks untouched in the forest versus taking sticks sharpened or carved by another’s labor-over-time without consent. Obviously responses naturally vary depending on amount of time lost, as well perceived importance placed on the possession forcefully taken, combined with effectual outcomes ranging from mild inconvenience to severe devastation.
However, regardless the various responses and retorts criticizing and categorizing violent acts, that is, activities always nonconsensual of any sort intimate, private, social, public, economic, political and more, the equation consistently includes others’ time disregarded hence others’ time lost per possession(s) confiscated and/or recuperation necessitated therefore others’ time irrecoverable. How else should each and every life and allotted time be viewed if not something uniquely enlivened, at most divinely given, at least individually striven, provisioned voluntarily and solely by consent? How else should the disregard of it be viewed if not covetousness upon original intention, presumption upon per continual deliberation and violence upon eventual manifestation, conditioned definitively and solely by dissent? Logically, then regarded and respected one’s life therefore unknown time, if first regarded and respected one’s Singular Human Right to Consent or Not Consent therefore Peculiar Human Ability to Reason.
To describe the aforementioned as “intimately married” is literally referring to all goods’ metaphoric yet quite actual coition between scarce labor-over-time and scarce resources, thus the former unavoidably applied to the latter to convert something unusable to something usable even tradable or sellable. Consequently, what is more “intimate” or personal than one’s unknown lifespan from womb to tomb, therefore time limited, time continuous, time irrecoverable. It is by this dynamic and innate understanding since the evolution or creation of the specie human, moral distinctions were clearly made when gathering sticks untouched in the forest versus taking sticks sharpened or carved by another’s labor-over-time without consent. Obviously responses naturally vary depending on amount of time lost, as well perceived importance placed on the possession forcefully taken, combined with effectual outcomes ranging from mild inconvenience to severe devastation.
However, regardless the various responses and retorts criticizing and categorizing violent acts, that is, activities always nonconsensual of any sort intimate, private, social, public, economic, political and more, the equation consistently includes others’ time disregarded hence others’ time lost per possession(s) confiscated and/or recuperation necessitated therefore others’ time irrecoverable. How else should each and every life and allotted time be viewed if not something uniquely enlivened, at most divinely given, at least individually striven, provisioned voluntarily and solely by consent? How else should the disregard of it be viewed if not covetousness upon original intention, presumption upon per continual deliberation and violence upon eventual manifestation, conditioned definitively and solely by dissent? Logically, then regarded and respected one’s life therefore unknown time, if first regarded and respected one’s Singular Human Right to Consent or Not Consent therefore Peculiar Human Ability to Reason.
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Economy of Man; economizing of time limited hence energies
Prioritizing preferences per urgencies, necessities and whimsies
Constantly weighing, assaying, pondering, concluding, consenting
Else dissenting too, the sole manifestation of human reasoning
O the covetousness, presumption and the inevitable violence
Hyping as rights others’ possessions, nonesuch the vehemence
Insomuch the fraudulence, so preceding the deceitful polyanthus
Such savoring fragrance for minds susceptible then superfluous
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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.
Copyright © 2018 by D.C. Quillan Stone
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