Politeness can win more arguments even if we believe to be treated unjustly. 2011/10/20 Mark Janssen <[email protected]>
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Sandwichman <[email protected]> wrote:
What an incredibly odd argument to encounter on a P2P list concerned with reclaiming the commons! No one "owned" the commons in England, either. The common people had RIGHTS, guaranteed by the Charter of the Forest, the companion document to the Magna Carta. The enclosures of the commons usurped those traditional and legally ratified rights.
"The law locks up the man or woman. Who steals the goose from off the common. But leaves the greater villain loose. Who steals the common from off the goose."
To say that the aboriginal people of the Western Hemisphere didn't "own" the land is as relevant as saying they didn't read English or worship Jesus Christ as their savior. Europeans stole the land by imposing their own peculiar property regime, along with the metaphysics that viewed such peculiarity as both natural and universal.
Exactly, thank you.
Unfortunately, I don't have time to respond more either, but Natalie's points about bringing in the Western narrative (called "science") as a way to justify the spriritual loss are meaningless. Sorry, fuck you.
mark
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