L O S T

unreal episode.

What’s up with the new Lostaways? Are they on their own mission or something? Like, they’re descendants from the statue people? Or was that just some kind of code?

I thought the statue had long hair and pointy ears, which made me think, “No way that’s fucking Locke!” But Lostpedia tells me it’s a Nemes on the statue’s head, and that seems about right.

How bout that talk of how Smokey and Locke are linked? I think that’s just what they want us to think, but it’s up for debate…especially Ben’s line about how he can’t control what’s about to come out of the jungle…and then Locke appears.

Check out Miatthew Perry’s IMDB page – http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001612/

George Hobbes? HOBBES?

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is best known for his political thought, and deservedly so. His vision of the world is strikingly original and still relevant to contemporary politics. His main concern is the problem of social and political order: how human beings can live together in peace and avoid the danger and fear of civil conflict. He poses stark alternatives: we should give our obedience to an unaccountable sovereign (a person or group empowered to decide every social and political issue). Otherwise what awaits us is a ‘state of nature’ that closely resembles civil war – a situation of universal insecurity, where all have reason to fear violent death and where rewarding human cooperation is all but impossible. One controversy has dominated interpretations of Hobbes. Does he see human beings as purely self-interested? Several passages support such a reading, leading some to think that his political conclusions can be avoided if we adopt a more realistic picture of human nature. However, most scholars now accept that Hobbes himself had a much more complex view of human motivation.