reply to post by InSpiteOf
Well, it is idealism, and it may be reductionist, but the truth is they OWN it. We CONTROL it. All we ever have to do is say "no" at any given
point in time. What keeps us in this situation is a feeling of hopelessness. And, unwittingly, you are spreading that disease.
All we need to do is realize that freedom is NEVER something you "get" from someone. Freedom, (much like enlightenment) is something you already
possess. You make yourself "unfree" by seeking it from another. Their permission to have it. When the act of seeking freedom from another is the
very thing that binds you.
They "own" the internet. And other resources. But how did that happen? Someone sat down and decided one day that the Earth that once was something
we were guests on, children of, and had a right to, should be a possession of some individual. It was an agreement we made that the guy who said
"mine" was right. He didnt buy it. He said a word. "Mine." And we all said, "ok" and pretended it was his.
All we have to do is say "No. Not yours." They didnt build it, they dont operate it, and the money that they used to pay for it wasnt the result of
their own sweat, it was manipulation of that very same original agreement that things not yours, (the earth, the water, the forests) could just be
claimed and sold.
And it goes on til this day, in another thread today I posted on how Bechtel Corp. got the US and World bank backed Bolivian government to enforce
their claim that they owned the water. Including rainwater. The Bolivian people said "no." And they won. Sure, they are being punished for it, by
being denied loans to develop their water resources, but they at least are not paying someone for something that falls from the sky.
We dont have to live this way. We dont have to be slaves. And all it takes is for more of us to understand that the only thing enslaving us is us.
Not them, they just tell us how to enslave ourselves. We are the ones who actually do it.
And the only thing that prevents us from ceasing in this self enslavement is our sense that we can do nothing to prevent it from happening when that
is as far from the truth as it is possible to be.


