Property, Theft & Instagram

Leo Cookman
9 min readJan 25, 2021

It could be argued that civilisation revolves around property. The development of human society has depended on the utilitarian idea of mining resources and controlling the land that contains those resources, whether those resources be plants, oils, minerals or even other humans. By claiming ownership of these things by the international law of “I saw the practical/financial importance of this thing first” this form of ownership presents…

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Leo Cookman

Peripatetic Writer. “Time’s Lie” out now from Zero Books.