From Ownership to Owing, From Debt to Guilt

Philosophy overlays human action with a superstructure which conditions the action. Once you've started down that road, your society is essentially turned inside out. Where once good and bad came out of action, now there is a structure which determines what is good and bad and conditions action. That fornita is the beginning of something genuinely bad. And then finally, property to property. Fo nita is a problem because it introduces into the idea of ownership, the idea of owing things. So from guilt, quite quickly, an alliance can be made with shame. The philologist is always there in nita. He often notices that words have similar origins in his genealogy, in g