The Left’s Gospel: Humans Own the World

by Lorna Salzman (October 2015)

“We are as gods, and might as well get good at it” (Stewart Brand)

“..the world originally and essentially belongs to everyone..this common heritage may be divided into property only in ways that the dividers can justify on moral and political grounds..the built world ..is a shared product of human labor and intelligence and its fruits should therefore be distributed justly.” (“an egalitarianism for the anthropocene..”, Jedediah Purdy, Dissent magazine, fall 2015).

Can anyone detect more than a hair’s width difference between these two statements? The former is by the futurist and technophile Stewart Brand.The latter is by Duke law professor Jedediah Purdy.  more>>>