I understand what ownership means to the average person. But I do not believe the average person understands what ownership means to them. If they did, they would realise that just as money is only worth something because we all agree that it has value, things only have owners because we all subscribe to the notion of property. It is nothing more than a collective hallucination - a fantasy.

Many of us inherently understand that money isn't really worth anything. But, too many are yet to realise that they don't really "own" anything. They are just the current holders of users of things. None are in a rush to experience this revelation, because too many of us have been led to determine our worth as a person based on the amount of things we "own" rather than the choices that we make in life.

But while the idea that one owns a house is only tangible if everyone or most others also believe that person owns the house, ownership in the sense of responsibility is true regardless of what others may believe. This what I meant by the book analogy. I can write a book and claim I own it in the modern sense. But in order for me to own it in that way, I need you and everyone else to agree that it belongs to me and no one else should be able to print and sell it. But an intelligent "thief" could convince you all that they were the one that actually wrote the book - and then you would all believe they are the only one permitted to "sell" it. So, my ownership of this book I have written, by the modern sense of what it means to own something, is reliant upon group consensus. However, if that book I wrote leads people to behave in a destructive way and cause harm to one another - regardless of whether you all believe that it was the cunning thief that wrote it, the blame, the responsibility for the destructive behaviour manifesting in the world because of the words I decided to write down and then share with the world, lies with me. And it remains there regardless of what the rest of the world believes.

So, it's not really the case that I do not believe in property. It would be more accurate to say that property doesn't exist, and that I refuse to pretend it does just because everyone else has decided to.