The tale of the Three Bears is one that still terrifies me deep down inside to this day. It has shaped and defined much of my thinking since I can recall hearing it for the first time. Sounds crazy right? Let me explain a bit deeper for you.
We all know the tale of poor little Goldie Locks and typically side with her struggle of hunger and exhaustion.
The original story was not even about a little girl, but instead an old woman. There are many reason why the story was changed that I might get into sometime but for now let's use the common story about the little girl.
Let's also consider the tale from the bear's angle:
Imagine yourself as Momma or Poppa Bear with your little Baby Bear. You have foraged and worked exhaustively to provide for your family's needs, giving them shelter, providing a meal and creating a loving environment.
One day you cook up a pot of porridge with a pot you bought and spoons you bought and crops you planted, nurtured, and harvested but the meal was a little too warm to eat. You decide a nice family walk until dinner cools some would be just the thing to strength the constitution right?
You live in a nice suburban neighborhood with great neighbors that walk their dogs each evening and no real crime to speak of so why should you worry about locking your door? Why should you worry about protecting your family? It's a nice neighborhood right?
The thing you don't consider is the thing that could get your property taken, your breakfast stolen and even cost you your life. All property rights are only as strong as the force used to protect them. Sounds violent? Think of this:
If the bank wants to take your home, how will they do it? If the finance company want to repossess your car, how will they do it? If the government wants to take land from a citizen under Eminent Domain, how will they proceed?
What if I don't want my house foreclosed on? My only recourse is to pay my mortgage and hope the bank keeps their end of the bargain or litigate right? That is the "civilized" way isn't it? What if there is a mistake at the finance company and the Repo man comes knocking? What recourse do we have? What if tyrannical government decides to use Eminent Domain to make you move and build apartments on your homestead?
So back to the bears and Goldie.
So the bears go for a walk and enjoy the outdoors and the company. They talk about all sorts of frivolous and fun things never once considering that someone is stealing their property. Never once considering that someone might be in their house defiling their security. Ask anyone that has ever had their home broken into how it feels and you will get a better understand of the violation that was coming to the bears.
Goldie Locks was no dumb child. She peeped in windows scouting out the situation, she looked thru the key hole, and she was probably casing the house waiting for the opportune time to take what she had not worked for. Sound like our society yet?
So Goldie comes into the bears' castle, starts not only eating their food (spitting it on the floor because she was too good for what the common bear ate), she then takes to making herself at home, lounging in chairs (again thinking herself better than the people that bought and paid for the furniture) trashing the poor kid's chair.
If that were only the end...
Our antagonist (at least in my mind) then decides that the food and furniture wasn't enough, she needs a nap after her day of plundering and pillaging other people's property (I have my theories on this not being the first house she entered but that's a story for another time).
Dad's bed was too high, Mom's too low, but again the kid suffers.
Goldie jumps in the bed without regard not even removing her muddy shoes! THE NERVE!!!
So we all know the rest of the story. The Bears come home, find the house trashed and the girl in the baby's bed. They growl and get angry and the girl runs away, never to return.
The moral I took away from the story when I first heard it as a child?
It isn't yours unless you can protect it.
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