The Nomadic Alternative – Page 261

BRITISH MUSEUM

Department of Ancient Egyptian Antiquities

26254
Wooden Toy with moveable
parts consisting of a hound
worrying a bound and prostrate
man.

New Kingdom,     c.1300 B.C.

Useful instruction in the servant problem.
The man is a black African.

change from day to day. Civilization - the Thing-Oriented System

par excellence - is the inheritance of deprived, overgrown children

grasping for new things and more new things. It rests on a knife

edge of compensations and gratifications, of withdrawals and

submissions. That is why it can never be stable.

Wealth of any kind is an aspiration to lost freedom. Only if

freedom of movement is satisfied, will the things lie unwanted.

Human attachments bend and snap as attachment to things intensifies.

The man who equates property with his own personal welfare is stuck

in a wrong groove because he failed, through no fault of his own,

to get out of it as a child. His grasping of things stems from one

of two causes. Either his mother deprived him of her presence, or

his over-mothering mother prevented him making the essential contacts

at the exploring stage, warped his sex-life for good, and forced

him to turn instrospectively to material rewards. When men are

property-oriented, the innate instructions intended to cement society

together, deviate to form an artificial morality - The Morality of

Things. And the mechanisms in the brain intended to defend the people

from the Beast are employed to defend treasured property from the

Human Beast.

"The origin of war is envy." Ib'n Khaldun's intuition is the last

word on the subject. Biological explanations or excuses for spontaneous

militancy are not acceptable. Human warfare and the class struggle