There is also the need to feel part of the group. Both Hurley and Kate have expressed their concerns to Jack about being “in the loop” or “part of the club”. That sometimes leads to a bigger need for some folks to feel like they are in charge.

Then we see who has the power, who wants the power. Jack, Sawyer, Locke, Sayid and Ana-Lucia all seem to jockey for position with different tacks for getting the power they desire –they do not all want the same kind of power either. Oh and I forgot faux Henry, he REALLY needs to have power! In fact, the big power picture is the Lost Group/Others/The Island.

Personal space starts to become more of an issue when people get more comfortable and begin to feel like there is an order to their upside-down world. Charlie plays the guitar, Rose and Locke have been seen meditating, Sawyer reads, Sun has a garden, Jin fishes, Locke explores…..

Guess everything comes in circles and ends up with the Plane crash.

I sincerly hope they just gove us some damn clues before the end of this season.

Or otherwise I’m Gonna be Pissed with Damon.

Hehe..

Sun’s garden, I thought, would represent an evolution from hunter-gatherers to a more advanced agrarian society. Alas, the Swan station (and recent food drop) has turned the LOSTies into welfare recipients. Their fragile society could become weaker still, and risks dissolving into individual (or paired) scavengers, concerned only with day to day survival.

One final point: You are correct in surmising that fear is what galvanizes the survivors, and what keeps them together. As long as they are afraid (of Smokey, of the whispers, of the “Others”–all unknowns, interestingly), they have a common cause. Unfortunately, fear is the enemy within. Military might(the guns that Sawyer now controls) will never defeat it.

Leslie, I agree with what you are saying. I was thinking of putting human companionship as one of the needs too, but it was tough to place that on a timeline, becauses it could be argued that it was such a major element since the beginning, almost every episode is concerned with how they are built and established. But you’re right that human emotional needs are just as important, if not more so, than physical needs. Liked your thoughts on personal space, too.

Job, those are insightful thoughts, too. I was wondering what sort of government they could be considered, since they never formally elected anyone, but it seemed like all of them wanted Jack in the beginning without disagreement, and now it’s just tacitly understood that he calls most of the shots; it’s somewhat socialist, I guess. I see this being a source of conflict later as the ideological gap with Locke gets bigger. And how will the dynamic change, if they need to get more militant or have to go to war?

On another hand, I was thinking about (sorry you can censor me if I am wrong) … sex. We know that Jin and Sun enjoy their wedding because they are waiting for a baby, but what about Kate for instance ? Do you really think it’s realistic that there are no more new couples on the island, or even that some characters didn’t have some one-night stands ?
I guess that in real life, such manly testosteronic huys like Sawyer or Jack and suck “naughty girl” like Kate (maybe Ana is “wiser”) would propably already have had more than just a kiss …
I hope I am not shocking, it’s just a true question I am wondering after reading your post !

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME……What was the name and artist of the song playing in the bunker when they first go down there and find the guy.

That would be Mama Cass - “Make Your Own Kind of Music”

Who can walk on water? Who can wake the dead? Who is a sinner? Who is the snake in paradise lost? Who is god? Who is Judas? Who is Mouhammed? Who is Buddha? Who are you?

But the most clear point in Lost is the lost love between parents and their children.

I certainly agree with you, Lost fulfills a sort of dream of everyone to get back to childhood : a place where you have all together hopes, hapiness, interrogations, fears and no real answers. You just have to trust rather than to think in order to rely.

This is clearly a metaphora of our inner-depth : we are all lost in the world and we have to create a society to survive, otherwise we would all refuse to grow up, fight and survive for ourselves.

This island is like a mother when we are children : good but mysterious and worrying. The community is like the father : it helps people to find a culture, laws and limits. All losties are like children, taken between the scarying comfort of the island (//mother) and the necessity to respect rules to live in the community (//father).
We love the island, and we respect or admire the community : this is a necessary balance for all human living. nature/culture, mother/father, passion/reason, happiness/fear. In all those feelings you can both see eros(love)/thanatos(death) : our eternal fight whick keeps us alive as long as any of these two prevails.