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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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The Levelers Aren't Leveling, Right?

King Arthur reigned in England before there were castles in England, right? And he would have predated Alfred. So this is telling me that there's castles or lack of castle. Yeah. But no, the thing is, okay, there probably was a King Arthur, but he was English, right? He'd be called Th, E, G, N, I don't know if you know the term. Their castle was probably like a slightly less modest dwelling than anybody else is. They didn't really see themselves as leveling,. which is fair because they weren't leveling. Uh, today's heroes though, they sure as hell wanted to do a leveling. The levelers who wanted

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