The Oppressed & Their Possessions

Why do the oppressed feel the need to accumulate possessions, a person’s value measured by their net worth.

Assets become us, we live to serve our belongings.

The beauty of freedom suffocated by the capitalist idea of ownership.

Debt does not end with death, even after we have passed on we feel the need to place our rotting bodies inside a casket ordained with silver, nails driven into the fine stained timber...

One final metaphor. Even after death we are locked into our possessions.

Regardless of ones opinion of the afterlife, we certainly don't take our belongings with us.

They too will one day rot, back into the earth...

Back to the mother of us all, the mother we have so shamelessly damaged to quench our desire to own.

Reviews

[Melanie Jane Boicourt S..]

Oh! Love this! I especially love the mother reference. That is the aspect that some organized religions forget about. They teach that Earth was given to us or made for us to do what we will with it. That is so far from the truth in my eyes. I think we are just parasites living on this beautiful, powerful, energetic, spiritual, giving planet and at any moment, She can flick us off with her powerful ways. Of course, we are so stupid that we will destroy ourselves first, (along with other beautiful beings who depend on this mother of ours). I knowing all of this am still guilty of it myself. I am not sure how not to be while still living in a humanistic societyOur ancient human ways were so much more evolved so to speak. They lived with the Earth not on the Earth like they owned it. The ownership thing is what gets us in trouble. Like we could really own a piece of Earth. Funny if you think of it. Sad if you really think about it.

Bugs
We’re just bugs, crawling on the earth,
taking up space and claiming our turf.
We take what we need and we use it in haste,
building our stuff and making our waste.
MJS