So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.
Neil AbercrombieSo as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff.
Neil AbercrombieLand began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.
Neil AbercrombieWestern concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.
Neil Abercrombie