Title of book: Man’s Infinite Agony.
[b] Chapter One. Original Position And Nature Of Man.
By Joker.
" All men are born free, but everywhere they are surrounded by chains."
" Like the statue of Glaucus, which was so disfigured by time, seas, and tempests, that it looked more like a wild beast than a God, the human sould altered in society by a thousand causes perpetually recurring, by the acquisition of a multitude of truths and errors, by the changes happening to the constituion of the body, and the continual jarring of the passions, has, so to speak, changed in appearance, so as to be hardly recognizable."
- Jean Jacques Rousseau.
In ancient societies all able bodies searched for food with everything being shared with individuals by hunting and gathering. There was almost no private property other than clothing if any existed at all with relatively few personal items due to the fact of a social existence that had a relatively small surplus to none at all.
The few things that existed for any length of time was shared through the social collective where the subject or notion of the state was non existent.
Unlike our present there was no obssesion with objects as they would dispose of items quickly in order to move about easily in their nomadic travels. The apparatus of work or production is unheard of as they work by their leisure in sharing everything they posses.
They are entirely prodigal as they consume everything immediately making no economical calculations beyond the momentary necessities that confront them everyday.
The hunter gatherer knows no economics and consequently cares nothing about the exploitation of human energies, natural resources or the possibilities of them as they hold no immediate necessity to their survival.
Their community is one largely of trust in comparison to a state society operated by constant despair and insufficient wild uncontrolable desires.
In contrast our modern economy is filled with radical anxiety in comparison with our value market system.
The improvidence of ancient man with his prodigal characteristics shows real affluence in comparison to our “would be” state systems.
Even through hunger do we see a life fulfilled by our primitive ancestors working together strengthening their social collective ties. The economy of the gift or nature, there only exists the finitie quantity of goods which is sufficient to create communal wealth that constantly passes from on person to another.
Wealth is not extended from the basis of goods but instead exists in the exchange between people.
In the time of ancient man every relationship adds to the communal wealth, where in contrast our state societies that are differential social relationships adds to the individual lack of since all possesions is relativized in the relation to others.
In comparison affluence is destroyed in our present societies with true abundance being entirely lost. The lost affluence will never be restored or created by mere increase in productivity nor will will it happen by unleashing newly inventive productive forces.[/b]