2-3-1. The Acquisitive Society - Basis of the Having mode

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80-10. The principle is: "Where and how my property was acquired or what I do with it is nobody's business but my own; as long as I do not violate the law, my right is unrestricted and absolute."

This kind of property may be called private property (from Latin privare, "to deprive of"), because the person or persons who own it are its sole masters, with full power to deprive others of its use or enjoyment.

While private ownership is supposed to be a natural and universal category, it is in fact an exception rather than the rule if we consider the whole of human history (including prehistory), and particularly the cultures outside Europe in which economy was not life's main concern.

82-4. The norms by which society functions also mold the character of its members (social character). In an industrial society these are: the wish to acquire property, to keep it, and to increase it, i.e., to make a profit, and those who own property are admired and envied as superior beings.

But the vast majority of people own no property in a real sense of capital and capital goods, and the puzzling question arises: How can such people fulfill or even cope with their passion for acquiring and keeping property, or how can they feel like owners of property when they haven't any property to speak of?

Of course, the obvious answer is that even people who are property poor own something - and they cherish their little possessions as much as the owners of capital cherish their property. And like the big property owners, the poor are obsessed by the wish to preserve what they do have and to increase it, even though by an infinitesimal amount (for instance by saving a penny here, two cents there).

82-24. In a patriarchal society even the most miserable of men in the poorest of classes can be an owner of property - in his relationship to his wife, his children, his animals, over whom he can feel he is absolute master. 

84-8. The male hegemony in a patriarchal order has lasted roughly six or seven millennia and still prevails in the poorest countries or among the poorest classes of society. 

It is, however, slowly diminishing in the more affluent countries or societies - emancipation of women, children, and adolescents seems to take place when and to the degree that a society's standard of living rises.

With the slow collapse of the old-fashioned, patriarchal type of ownership of persons, wherein will the average and the poorer citizens of the fully developed industrial societies now find fulfillment of their passion for acquiring, keeping, and increasing property?

The answer lies in extending the area of ownership to include friends, lovers, health, travel, art objects, God, one's own ego.

96-19. I believe that quite a large number of groups and individuals are moving in the direction of being, that they represent a new trend transcending the having orientation of the majority, and that they are of historical significance.

It will not be the first time in history that a minority indicates the course that historical development will take. The existence of this minority gives hope for the general change in attitude from having to being. This hope is all the more real since some of the factors that made it possible for these new attitudes to emerge are historical changes that can hardly be reversed: the breakdown of patriarchal supremacy over women and of parents's domination of the young. 

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82-24. he can feel he is absolute master.

absolute master와 an absolute master의 차이

명사 원형 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ4L28rFJaw
명사 원형 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9syYcPfakpY