home? who decides.
Who assumes the right to occupy, to take as their own, a place? Who is welcome, who decides, and how is this decision enforced?
Questions concerning conflictual territories have been highlighted through doing the dream listener project. As soon as I stop and take up a place, a spot, others have to negotiate how they are going to move in relation to me. And how others move in relation to me depends upon how others perceive me, what my position is in relation to theirs. And it is all very subjective and personal. (And of course where I decide to stop and stand is also very much in relation to my perception of any given space.)
Our subjective attitude towards place was highlighted in recent news from Montréal. A violent conflict between two high schools, one white, mostly english speaking, the other coloured, mostly french speaking —was further broadcast via youtube with comments from the white students telling the coloured students to “go home.”
Go home. Implying this is my home but not yours. But how do we decide who is at home and who is not? And as Canadians it is questionable that any of us (other than the First Nations) can claim to be “home” in any kind of historical sense. But the word “home” cuts so deep. The slur is not, “go away,” the slur is “go home.”
There is such sadness in that knee-jerk response to ownership of a particular location of the earth. And it doesn’t stop there, we are territorial about every single kind of “space” you can imagine: social space, spiritual space, political space, and on and on it goes. What gives with us humans anyways?
below is my response to a recent post from urban photo:
actually…my experience is that public space is a myth,…or public space is for a specific public and if you don’t happen to fit in, you are quite literally hauled away. to me it seems that every space is monitored, and regulated. if people (citizens) lodge a complaint with the police you can be asked to move along, if you do not move along you can be fined for loitering…or causing a nuisance. so if you do find a space/place that will tolerate you and your actions you will tend to return to that place. ask any homeless person how ‘public’ public space is…
The owner of a home has full authority over the property he owns, and the Police are their to enforce his rights.
In public places, such as the streets, we must circulate, parking or camping on a street blocks traffic!
Home is where i am free to be myself and where my chosen family teach me to be a better person
Make wherever you dwell liberated ground. Hallowed. It's a mindset, not a question of so-called "rights". Make your space sacred and NO One will move against you.
That's the ideal.
Everything less is merely politics and economy. Can you pay for it? Can you maintain it? Even in the events of imminent domain or asset forfeiture?
Below this is war and below that is animalism or instinct.
Truly high people give no thought to where they'll lay their head. They know it will be provided.
The rest of us are expected to get by best we can, that's our moral imperative by virtue of birth. We must survive, it's our point in being here. As we're doing this hopefully we're learning those truly high peoples methods.
Just my thoughts.
Row, Roll, Row yer boat,
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily
Life is but a DREAM.
So be your own hero.
AND MAKE IT COUNT!
Really, if you're in a store, they've got view cameras and walk talkies ad hoc cell phones, they've got your name in some file because you purchased something or your own loan to them, you walk on the street to meet somebody and the waitress or store clerk eyes you and tastes you and follows you with your gestures and who you'll be meeting, and if he doesn't recognize you, he will look like a passerby and look non halate until he lives through who you subsist. I know somebody who broke her ribs as well as was crying of pain in her own "domain" simultaneously duo other residents of the premises were standing exterior mimicking her aching noises, wherefore? Who knows, maybe they were idiots or maybe someone commanded them to keep her swiftly so she wouldn't pressurize the good aerospace in that place? This is just walking could you imagine what goes on behind the scenes when they actually know who you are and your secrets.
They know we're weak they've known that for a long time with the proper business sense do you suppose anybody would allow an opportunity of this dull structure where everybody is told they can get along on what they're told traditionally and not lay out little traps in case you step out of line. So if over there is any life outside there tell someone you recognize and enable the passion initiate.
I am really pleased I can disclose my enigmas here on this expedient communique plank and not have someone authorize on me and lessen me greater into favors.
However, once you have a home your'e less likely to be worried about such things as you are aware of your rights and don't waste time recognition them and had you done that you would waste a lot of time, and it wouldn't be valued at it, so its unsatisfactory to the exhibit and all is howdy "congenial" to the rear at house. Until some mysterious fire burns down your home or some robbery, or theft,