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Part Two: The Diggers, the Levelers, the Ranters, and John Darnielle

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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Utopian, I Don't Want to Live There.

In Thomas Moore's utopia, anyone who hurts anyone gets hurt in exactly the same way by an executioner. Anyone who claims to be holy but then trades for possessions of the earth gets put to death and as a witch. If you refuse to grow food, if you don't learn a trade, if you buy or sell land, you get executed. The punishment for almost everything else is a servant for a year where you are like a slave to the state.

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