Squatter's Rights

There's no such thing as a non-squatter. When you look at the origins of species you see that adverse possession is the only kind there is, adverse with respect to other species and peoples and probably God, whose holdings must be vast so maybe he will let us carry on even though we have trashed the squatted property unreasonably. 

Primordial rights don't exist because no one is indiginous anywhere. It's another face of racism to think that a tribe or group has a claim to a space independently of anything. The claim must be adjudicated in the high court of human consensus, meaning we have to make the shit up because it isn't grounded in any law or foundation.

But this is good. It means we are free to do it well, not being enslaved by Martians or wildebeest or bohemians. It's our chance to show the universe what a good instance of creation we are and how a well run planet looks through a kickass telescope or from the bridge of some technologically incomprehensible flying frisbee. 

Wait, no. I just took a burrito break and checked the news and we aren't actually doing so well. We seem to be the galactic equivalent of squabbling slum-scum, awaiting the planetary equivalent of urban renewal to save us from our distress. God help us! I mean it. It's SOS time for spaceship earth. Abandon planet! What a titanic mess.

I wonder sometimes what it feels like to be Ted Cruz or Rand or Mitch or Tom Cotton or one of those guys flying into Washington from their slave states to bomb hell out of it. Does "Tora! Tora! Tora!" ever bubble into consciousness as they begin their final approach to the hated place? They have the advantage. The war is undeclared. 

The attack sneaky. The goal is to make their opponents incapable of defense before they know there is a war. It's adverse possession, squatting, the assertion of power and privilege as the human imperatives, unlawful taking in righteous guise, as they have no claim or deed and are outside the system and inimical to it, a fifth column.

There's a dilemma in consciousness. We can't be animals. Either we're better or worse. It seems that we're worse, spitting in the face of God's gift to us, a glimpse of the power of creation, the ability to evolve within a generation, and we only prove again and again how unworthy, inhumane and incomprehensibly stupid we are. 

Moratorium is the answer. At some point you have to forgive and forget and start over without the baggage of past transgressions and entitlements. It's easier in some cases than others but we continue to go backwards, laying the foundations for a future of increased grievances. Maybe we could get past the Civil War in America.

We think we're so above this stuff and we aren't. The battle now being fought for control in Washington is this: privilege and power against principle and the rule of law. If any government, but especially ours, fails to protect the weak from the powerful it has lost its legitimacy. It's the reason for governments to exist in the first place.

Anything else is at an animal level. We are there now and getting worse, as privilege increases. And Ted Cruz wants to be president. It leaves caring and rational people speechless to admit the possibility. Truly, abandon planet! The impropriety of it is dumbfounding. It is not running a country but the abdication of it. It's giving up.