I admit I never read Locke - my interest in philospohers was much older Lao Tse, Plato, Sophacles era. But I thought Locke was speaking against fiefdom where the serf worked the land but the wealthy, warring, lords took all the profit. This new interpretation makes him just another money grubbing asshole. Guess I'll have to breakdown and read him for myself.
As to Oklahoma, while it is not a State I find in any degree admirable it is no more to be pitied, or admonished that any other State, or Canada, Mexico or all of South America. Both Continents were settled and had been settled for many thousands of years by migrants from Asia.
We Europeans simply stole the land and paid for it in 'Indigenous blood' But since we are all Homo sapiens it is simply further proof that we have been the worst animal to evolve on planet Earth.
I admit I never read Locke - my interest in philospohers was much older Lao Tse, Plato, Sophacles era. But I thought Locke was speaking against fiefdom where the serf worked the land but the wealthy, warring, lords took all the profit. This new interpretation makes him just another money grubbing asshole. Guess I'll have to breakdown and read him for myself.
As to Oklahoma, while it is not a State I find in any degree admirable it is no more to be pitied, or admonished that any other State, or Canada, Mexico or all of South America. Both Continents were settled and had been settled for many thousands of years by migrants from Asia.
We Europeans simply stole the land and paid for it in 'Indigenous blood' But since we are all Homo sapiens it is simply further proof that we have been the worst animal to evolve on planet Earth.