Post by Administrator on Sept 1, 2012 19:41:22 GMT -5
Though we now guard national borders and enforce private property rights–in order to improve our chances, first, for survival and then, unconsciously, for genetic success—pitted primarily against one another—the warm light of each rising sun might just as well cross a planet newly shared by all of us–never claimed by any one of us—if we were only, in the main, a more enlightened race of beings.
That we are not so, however, does not exonerate us from the distance we put between our lives today and that idyllic, more natural state of human equality. Our almost compulsive propensity for having children–whose own needs justify the further pursuit of property and of wealth—quite often of one another’s–fuels our territorial claims, our private property ownership, our nation states–and our wars.
That we are not so, however, does not exonerate us from the distance we put between our lives today and that idyllic, more natural state of human equality. Our almost compulsive propensity for having children–whose own needs justify the further pursuit of property and of wealth—quite often of one another’s–fuels our territorial claims, our private property ownership, our nation states–and our wars.