All Human Illusions Begin with the 'Collective Private Ownership' of Land

Animals other than humans do not know of rights, obligations, nations, or history.

These are all nothing more than human illusions.

Why did humans begin to have such illusions about 10,000 years ago?

It is because they discovered cultivation techniques, settled on land, and the need arose to collectively 'privately own' that land.

Originally, land belongs to no one. Animals are only there because there is food, and if the food runs out, they move elsewhere. Even if they have territory, it is because they are attached to the food, not because they are attached to the land.

However, when land and food became linked through cultivation techniques such as rice farming, it became necessary to protect the land over a long period. From sowing seeds in the spring to harvesting in the autumn, it became necessary to assert that the land was 'one's own'.

Because that was such a desperate necessity for survival, humans created illusions.

The simultaneous increase in population due to the 'calorie revolution' of rice farming and other crops also acted as a trigger. This is because it led to competition for land. The 'settlement revolution' brought about by the discovery of cultivation techniques and the 'calorie revolution' combined to encourage the creation of human illusions.

To make a certain piece of land 'one's own,' it became advantageous to defend it as a group, and eventually, this became a 'nation' equipped with armaments.

A nation is an entity that collectively asserts that its territory is 'its own,' and the narrative that explains this to the outside world as 'our own' becomes 'history'.

What it means to make something 'one's own,' the rules of private ownership, became 'rights' and 'laws'.

Most human lives end with the goal of possessing and continuing to protect these illusory 'our own' things. Symbolically speaking, most humans after the birth of collective illusions live to pay 'rent' for space that originally belonged to no one.

Everything, including culture, is a collective illusion based on illusions created so that someone, or some group, can make a specific piece of land 'their own'.

Without such illusions, everyone would be homeless. The original state of animals, including humans, is to be homeless. From the perspective of nature, everyone other than the homeless is 'unjustly' occupying space.

Only humans who believe in illusions think that there are boundaries in space between what is someone else's and what is their own, such as 'my home' or 'my country,' and this does not apply to animals other than humans.

That is why a pigeon is dropping feces on my balcony again this morning.