In America, we, more than any other first-world country, are stuck in a Lockean world where it is taken as gospel that man is, to quote Locke, the property acquiring animal. A great majority of our laws an social structure are built atop this axiom. However, I believe that the evidence is overwhelming that rather than being the “property acquiring” animal, humankind is the “media producing” animal, and that acquiring property is in fact always in service to the production of new media, new technology, new ideas, and new ways of thinking. If there is any value in possessing property, it is in its potential to be utilized as base material for a new thing, which is given back to us as a species.

http://www.neanderthalproject.com/?p=35

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