What we call “mine” is often just a boundary line everyone has agreed to honour. But who drew that line, and when?
What we call “mine” is often just a boundary line everyone has agreed to honour. The line is not real; what is real is the silent agreement to respect it.
We tend to think of property as a natural fact. Yet it is a constantly reproduced relationship: remembered, defended, inherited.
So who drew that line, and when? And more importantly: can it be erased?