Speaker 3
There's a lot of a
Speaker 2
lot of bad translation, like in terms of
Speaker 2
a, interms of the meaning. There's a, like, there's o, especially the stuff about servants having to be good, stuff like that. That stuff, there's a lot of ways you could treat that stuff in both the hebrew and the septuagent um
Speaker 3
ah. But, but king james style is to is to preserve the rights of the king and so forth. M,
Speaker 2
so king james is, like, it's not, it's not the translation you should read if you want to know what the bible is aboutit. However, one of the most beautiful
Speaker 3
texts ever written. Come o
Speaker 1
the this is good. That's exactly like s i'm just like, oh, this seems to be the one that my friends tell me is not very accurate. So, a, so the these revolts, this is put, again, before the main levellers in english civil these revolts make their way into shakespeare, who was against land enclosure. He alluded to it un subtly, at least to his audience at the time. And henry the sixth part two, which i have definitely not read. I am,
Speaker 1
read shakespeare, but i have not read this one,
Speaker 2
henry, the sixth part two. Yes.
Speaker 1
Well, no, i am pretty shakespeare about an other once iit's a deep cut. So my theory is that it's actually about a a lantern full of green cheese.
Speaker 1
these are the original levellers, rowdy commoners who are upset bit by being told that they would have to starve rather than let the rich maximise their profit arever. 50 years later, youhave the new levellers. They got given the name as an insult. John lilliburn is one of the leaders, and he preferred the term agitators, which makes sense, cause they weren't levelling, right? But john lilliburn was not the sole leader of the levellers. People call him that now because of the great antheory nonsense. But the the movement seemed to coalesce around one of the many campaigns to get him out of jail, because he kept getting thrown in jail beause he was an obstinate bastard who was actually really cool in many ways, not in other ways. He was the the second son of gentry, which is a whole thing he expecting inheritance. So these second sons were a big source of social unrest a their nobility with nothing to lose. Since a primageniture, which is the system of inheritance. Tha basiely says, everything goes to the oldest son. This system came over in the eleventh century with the norman conquest. Because in it, because of this system, you didn't have thi sort of built in economic equalizing force where large estates were broken up every time someone died, right? And so it kind of allows feudalism to really take off, this system of inheritance. On the other hand, gavel kind secession, which is the kind before it, which is when all heirs, usually sons, get a piece of the estate, you have all these wars as everyone tries tilk recreate the large estates and shold. So it kind of seems fucked either way, honestly. Ye.
Speaker 2
But, but john le lern thing, as this is the thing, the line, i keep
Speaker 3
the killida keep looking at it's not hopefuli
Speaker 3
the samuel beckett line,
Speaker 2
you're on earth. There's no cure for that. I sort of feel like, you know, a lot of a lot of collectivist stuff tat that, that we assume everybody at corps
Speaker 3
shares, and that we still teach and have to sort of behave as if they did.