Oppressive-Possessives
TBT1
Teddy Bear Tales 1
“Possessives are oppressive,” my Teddy Bear whispers in my ear. “I’m not your Teddy and you’re neither my owner nor my master. The world exists without you possessing it. It will continue without you. And yes, I hear you, especially when you talk in your sleep. ‘My wife,’ you mutter, ‘my daughter, my flowers, my garden, my lawn, my birds, my bees, my deer, my house, my grounds, my groundhog, my car, my TV, my team, my Teddy.’ Well, permit me to share a secret with you. None of them are yours. You may think you own them, but you don’t.”
“My God …” I sat up in bed and held my Teddy Bear at arm’s length, staring into his button eyes.
“There you go again,” Teddy stared right back at me. “Whatever are you thinking? Those two little words, yours and mine, are a threat to the universe.”
rogermoorepoet 
Great story, my friend. We seem to be connected in the dimension of ideas somehow. I just finished my dystopian trilogy yesterday, and it involves both teddy bears and the concept of owning things. It’s happened again:)
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Very interesting. The idea of “possession” goes back a long way. Cervantes uses it in Don Quixote’s rhetorical speech on the Golden Age (DQI, 1605). As for the Teddy Bears … Glad you liked the story and thanks for the comment.
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You got me looking for the origin of the concept, but I couldn’t find it. The old, but not that old, anarchist philosophers talked about the difference between possession and property, and argued the first one is rational and the second is not. Quite interesting stuff.
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It probably re-surfaced as a concept during the lead up to the Spanish Civil War. I wouldn’t be surprised to find it in the writings of Miguel de Unamuno, the Spanish philosopher and rector at Salamanca. He certainly wrote, and wrote well, on the Quixote.
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I’ve read most of his contradiction-book, I think La Contradicción was it’s name. The first half is very interesting, the second half was rather strange. The last chapter is good, though. Proudhon goes into the subject in depth in he What is Property- book from mid nineteenth century. The distribution of property certainly was an important part of what lead up to the spanish civil war, and the relation property/ possesion, which didn’t go hand in hand at all.
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I think we need to talk further about some of this. Drop me an e-mail at roger.moore@rogers.com
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Thanks! I will:)
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Interesting little fact about Unamuno was that he was close friends with Francisco Franco’s wife, which from what I’ve heard might have saved his life at some occation.
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