Quite!
will now that I see a response.
K my take and it
Covers a broad collect of thought usually met wit total lack of understanding except by readers of a similar mindset.
What the writer stated has my support.
There is a corporate class that fouls the commons in the obsession with profit. And my research tells me the corporate body has no or little soul.
Stuff I believe as gospel.
As good as any a description of the ruling class and corporate hierarchy
“The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is more important of all, the banker of the backer. Throned above all, in a manner without parallel in all the past, is the veiled prophet of finance, swaying all men living by a sort of magic” - G. K. Chesterton
"Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous."
-- Confucius
One way of looking at things, for sure. How about “reflection without study is fruitless.”?
Law is based on customs and the customs became law but sanctioned by a ruling class and not the likes of you and I
The old mantra
“Know who you are!” is very much at play here.
“Who are You?”
According to law… ok sorry about that back on track here
The Corporate body was given life by those who exploit it.
And they have no concern for the commons
Ref.>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure Re: the Commons
http://10000birds.com/the-enclosure-movement.htm 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.
The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine.
The poor and wretched don’t escape
If they conspire the law to break;
This must be so but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law.
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back.
This wonderful old poem, author unknown, is employed by Duke University Professor of Law, James Boyle to introduce his cogent analysis of The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain. Boyle’s focus is on intellectual property rights and the “intangible commons”, but his powerful piece discusses some overlapping or analogous concerns regarding the physical commons. This passionate ballad serves brilliantly as prologue because it rails against the inequities of one of the great privatization schemes in Western history – the English enclosure movement.
Enclosure, summarized ever so briefly, describes the process through which farmland shared in common for communal grazing and agriculture or marginal land such as fens and moors were fenced off for private use, typically pasturage for wool production. The enclosure movement dramatically altered the English way of life, ushering in enormous economic and social upheavals that had a profound influence on modern society. Proponents and opponents of enclosure may argue vehemently about whether the changes wrought by enclosure were, in the long run, positive or negative. One’s position on this matter will offer clear insight into where he or she falls on the privatization of public lands today.
~Fini~
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