The End of Real Estate

Woven within the term “real estate” there lives a hint that the nature of the modern land transaction game has little authentic bearing in the real world (read spiritual realm). The notion to assert that it is “real” arises because, in fact, it has no basis in reality. After all, who ever said one could actually buy land, buy and sell portions of the Earth that, in essence, belong to all humanity, as well as all living beings upon the planet!

It only takes a few moments of sitting in stillness with the question of private land ownership to realize not only that the concept is a fabrication, but a dilemma entailing an extensive web of karmic bondage - for both its victims (all living beings on the planet) and its perpetrators.

Earth Vision holds that to the degree spiritual evolution proceeds on the planet humanity comes to embrace alternative relationships with the land. Further, any acts of profiteering from land transaction entail a transgression against the whole of the living community on a moral level. When, for example, both parents of a family are required to work full time for endless years to sustain adequate shelter, the children of the world suffer.

Land allocation rendered on any other basis than what is best for the whole of a given ecosystem can only degrade the social system.
Recent financial market discord in the realty sector is a symptom that profiteering and speculation leads to a disturbing malaise in the relationship between the human community and land.

Land is actually priceless. It cannot be owned any more that can the starlight that radiates down on us. Neither can a nation own land. The purpose of nations and states and provinces has come and gone. At this juncture in time, as ecological crises cross all notion of boundaries, it becomes evident that true nation-hood must comprise eco-zones - or, rather, the world as one nation and its eco-zones as provinces.

The modern house as existential burden

The typical modern North American dwelling has become excessive and unwieldy, and not only unduly impacts the environment, but requires high initial investment, large cash infusions to sustain and furnish, and endless attention to maintain. Consider for a moment, how the modern “home” of several thousand square feet is actually large enough to house 12-16 people, given that one or two hundred square feet is more than enough for an individual.

When the time comes around to renew the roofing, or painting, or any of a roster of maintenance tasks, the bills are high. Imagine the tiny maintenance costs of a minimal 200 square foot home? Further, once one owns a large house, the natural consequence that follows is to fill it with “stuff” - the environmentally irresponsible raison d’etre of modern society. Shop ‘til the Earth drops. Fill your big space with stuff, and spend the rest of your days paying it off (or else exploiting others to do so for you).

And so the real estate game deepens, the distraction of the masses from a genuine lifestyle.
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