135 One of the most essential subjects to unlearn is the importance we place on owning property beyond our needs and beyond what we can use. Now we have trade, property, lots of government, and if we keep on acquiring more and more property at the expense of our natural resources, we may become the blessed inhabitants of a primitive world again, only this time a primitive world that has been ecologically degraded beyond restoration.
People hang on to their property as though it is more important than life.
Some even control it from the grave through prerecorded wills and smart guardians or wily lawyers. In some cases it takes almost a lifetime to acquire that important property, and a lifetime isn't very long. Usually by the time we've accumulated it, we are too physically spent to enjoy it. In our struggle to become property wise, we've forgotten how to live. Parents struggle through their child-rearing days to get that large house that will accommodate the family more comfortably only to discover that by the time they fulfill their dream, their chicks are ready to fly the coop and leave them roosting in a house too big to handle.