The Giving Tree & the fourth Little Pig

[Terrance]

Let us not take a closer look at objectification, at the production of
the worker, and the estrangement, the loss of the objet, of his product,
that this entails.


Justin:                Mom, Dad, What are trees? 
Flash & Frenesi:       What? (each with a hand cupped behind an ear) 

The workers can create nothing without nature, without the sensuous
external world. It is the material in which his labor realizes itself,
in which it is active and from which, and by means of which, it
produces.

And the fourth little piggy didn't build a house at all. For no
materials were to found anywhere in the world. He walked out of the book
and into Shell Silverstein's Giving Tree and onto the page where the old
man is resting on the stump.  and before he could say a word the old man
got up and walked away and so did the stump. 

But just as nature provides labor with the means of life, in the sense
of labor cannot live without objects on which to exercise itself, so
also it provides the means of life in the narrower sense, namely the
means of physical subsistence of the worker.


Got Lunch? 

The more the worker appropriates the external world, sensuous nature,
through his labor, the more he deprives himself of the means of life in
two respects: firstly, the sensuous external world becomes less and less
an object belonging to his labor, a means of life of his labor; and,
secondly, it becomes less and less a means of life in the immediate
sense, a means for the physical subsistence of the worker.



In these two respects, then, the worker becomes a slave of his object;
firstly, in that he receives an object of labor, i.e., he receives work,
and, secondly, in that he receives means of subsistence. Firstly, then,
so that he can exists as a worker, and secondly as a physical subject. 


The culmination of this slavery is that it is only as a worker that he
can maintain himself as a physical subject and only as a physical
subject that he is a worker.

What are you? 

I'm Batman!