Adam and John Locke and LOST
For my Democracy & Political Thinking class today, I had to read an article by liberal theorist John Locke pertaining to liberal democracy. Immediately I pictured the gruff yet attractive Terry O'Quinn and visions of LOST danced in my head.
Then today, in class, Den Dulk (prof) mentioned another liberal theorist named Rousseau, whose theories revolve around "wandering naked in the woods" kind of stuff... my head almost exploded. LOST's Rousseau is a crazy French woman who runs around wildly in the woods.
I thought I was catching onto something subtle about the series, and was going to conduct research, until AJ shattered my dreams and told me that a lot of the characters are named after theorists and the like (or, as with Henry Gale, Wizard of Oz characters). Oh well, it was exciting while it lasted. I am curious as to where some of the other names came from, though...so if you have any, comment with them.
Another reason I'm particularly on good terms with Den Dulk's class today is that the Locke reading talked alot about harvesting land and obtaining food and how once you put labor into obtaining food, it becomes your property...it made me think a lot about Genesis and Adam and his curse (as I was reminded of in our women's Bible study Tuesday morning!):
Then He said to Adam, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I told you, "Do not eat from it," the ground is cursed because of you. By hard work you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will grow thorns and thistles for you. You will eat the plants of the field. You will eat bread by the sweat of your face because of hard work, until you return to the ground, because you were taken from the ground. You are dust, and you will return to dust."
--Genesis 3:17-19; New Life Version Bible
After our Bible study, I thought about how weird it'd be if we didn't have to work the land for food, and it'd all be provided for us. Well, for non-farming, non-gardening Meijer shoppers such as myself, that's kind of how it is today. But what if there were NO farms, no gardens... weird.
Well, that's my attempt at being intellectual for the week.
AJ just sat next to me so that's my cue to leave. He smells.
Then today, in class, Den Dulk (prof) mentioned another liberal theorist named Rousseau, whose theories revolve around "wandering naked in the woods" kind of stuff... my head almost exploded. LOST's Rousseau is a crazy French woman who runs around wildly in the woods.
I thought I was catching onto something subtle about the series, and was going to conduct research, until AJ shattered my dreams and told me that a lot of the characters are named after theorists and the like (or, as with Henry Gale, Wizard of Oz characters). Oh well, it was exciting while it lasted. I am curious as to where some of the other names came from, though...so if you have any, comment with them.
Another reason I'm particularly on good terms with Den Dulk's class today is that the Locke reading talked alot about harvesting land and obtaining food and how once you put labor into obtaining food, it becomes your property...it made me think a lot about Genesis and Adam and his curse (as I was reminded of in our women's Bible study Tuesday morning!):
Then He said to Adam, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I told you, "Do not eat from it," the ground is cursed because of you. By hard work you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will grow thorns and thistles for you. You will eat the plants of the field. You will eat bread by the sweat of your face because of hard work, until you return to the ground, because you were taken from the ground. You are dust, and you will return to dust."
--Genesis 3:17-19; New Life Version Bible
After our Bible study, I thought about how weird it'd be if we didn't have to work the land for food, and it'd all be provided for us. Well, for non-farming, non-gardening Meijer shoppers such as myself, that's kind of how it is today. But what if there were NO farms, no gardens... weird.
Well, that's my attempt at being intellectual for the week.
AJ just sat next to me so that's my cue to leave. He smells.