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(9,137 posts)from attaching human emotions to banks, as if taking them down could be sinister.
They are abstract constructs that we have built, and in some - very limited and totally abstact sense - they have become extremely powerful and hurting us bad.
What makes us humans is not just our ability to learn, all animals can do that, but our ability to learn away and deconstruct what we have constructed, so we can keep on learning. And living.
And that's what this is about, taking down abstract power structures. That's one aspect of the process. Others plant trees and tend gardens, others heal and nurture, others do other things. But best part of it, it's not under control. No matter how hard some people may try to control all and everything, they can never succeed. Because control is just abstract idea.