Origins of Our Economic Powerlessness: Tracing poverty, inequality to the enclosure of the commons

[Igel]

1. Hmmm ...

I wonder how he thinks about the transfer of control over the atmosphere from everybody to the government.

No, it's not parallel to the "transfer from the peasants to the lord" that II says. Then again, II is wrong. Control of the open "commons" didn't go from the peasants to the lord. It went from everybody, peasants and lords, to just the lords (with, of course, the peasants tied to the land who were the ones with the most access to the fields).

As for the roads, it's a lifestyle choice, one open to and pretty much necessary given cultural constraints on housing construction and the prevalence of cars. He disapproves of certain lifestyles. Not his business.

A nearby neighborhood was built with his kind of neighborhood in mind. All the fronts of houses point in to a central path. Sort of like Venice "in" West LA. In this case the backyards have the garages, which debouche onto absolutely sterile streets. Setting out the trash cans brightens the street twice a week. The central path is meant to be a commons, where kids can play and people can congregate. But they don't. You can look down a row of 25 hours on either side and see no toys, no people. II's looking at cultural change and is having a conservative fit: "Must stop the change, it's not like I remember it, and the way I remember it was good!"

Eh. We'll all die eventually but life will go on, just not as we would have it.