The Lost Inheritance is about a self-evident inalienable human right. It is a natural birthright. It is a direct corollary of the right to life. It is the right of each to own the immediate unencumbered use of terrestrial resources adequate to transform his labour into his needs of life.
Each of us arrives here with nothing. We can each take nothing with us when we leave. But while we are here we have many needs. We need food, clothing, shelter. We need air, water and space. The human life-form is not self-existent. Each is a mere subsystem of Gaia, wholly dependent on what Mother Earth provides.
Mother Earth is a bountiful giver. World agricultural statistics show that there is abundance for all. Yet all do not receive abundantly. A favoured few bask in affluence while most suffer poverty. Why? What is causing the deprivation and disparity that is all too apparent among the inhabitants of this planet?
It cannot be a fault of nature. It can only result from the way people relate with each other. It is a fault of politics. Politics is merely the realisation of society's collective will, which is inevitably constructed to fulfil man's inherent greed for unlimited personal wealth.
Some are born rich. Others become rich through fortuitous opportunity. The rest vainly dream, each convinced that one day his Lottery ticket will bear the winning number. Most of us have no inheritance in this planet. We each own none of it. The Earth is, for the most part, owned by a favoured few who safeguard their possession by inductively controlling States that are governed by systems of law that facilitate and enforce the ordered and peaceful containment and exploitation of the poor by the rich.
The only way to establish global equity is to destroy the hierarchies that maintain the disparity. But what kind of social order could replace them? Is it possible for human beings to live together in a society in which all have equal rights, responsibilities and status? Does there exist a stable dynamic structure - a mathematical attractor - under which an egalitarian society could function? Or is hierarchy the only option?
