Sep 022002
Tim Blair, whom I have been remiss in not adding to the blogroll, an oversight that has now been corrected, eviscerates Lewis Lapham.
“The rights of the individual in the United States have been increasingly diminished and the rights of property continually augmented,” he gripes, as though people have nothing to do with property. Apparently in Lapham’s world property invents itself, then forces itself upon us humans. Go away, house! Leave me alone, car!
An essential step of removing one’s property is to claim it has nothing to do with one’s spirit. The result is aptly alluded to by the saw about poverty, "having difficulty keeping body and soul together." Get away from me body!