{"id":2229,"date":"2014-11-30T08:23:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T13:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2014-11-30T08:23:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T13:23:41","slug":"oftwominds-charles-hugh-smith-do-we-own-our-stuff-or-does-our-stuff-own-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2229","title":{"rendered":"oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Do We Own Our Stuff, or Does Our Stuff Own Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/charleshughsmith.blogspot.ca\/2014\/11\/being-freed-from-being-owned-is-form-of.html\">oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Do We Own Our Stuff, or Does Our Stuff Own Us?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; color: #000000;\"><b style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">The frenzied acquisition of more stuff is supposed to be an unalloyed good:<\/b>\u00a0good for &#8220;growth,&#8221; good for the consumer who presumably benefits from more stuff and good for governments collecting taxes on the purchase of all the stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"float: left; width: 325px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\n<tr style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><b style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">But the frenzy to acquire more stuff raises a question: do we own our stuff, or does our stuff own us?<\/b>\u00a0I think the answer is clear: our stuff owns us, not the other way around.<\/span><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><b style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Everything we own demands its pound of flesh<\/b>\u00a0in one way or another: space must be found for it amid the clutter of stuff we already own, it must be programmed, recharged, maintained, dusted, moved, etc.<\/span><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><b style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">The only way to lighten the burden of ownership is to get rid of stuff rather than buy more stuff.<\/b>\u00a0The only way to stop being owned is to is get rid of the stuff that owns us.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Do We Own Our Stuff, or Does Our Stuff Own Us?. The frenzied acquisition of more stuff is supposed to be an unalloyed good:\u00a0good for &#8220;growth,&#8221; good for the consumer who presumably benefits from more stuff and good for governments collecting taxes on the purchase of all the stuff. 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