On 11/3/10 7:21 AM, humunculus wrote:
On Nov 3, 3:55 am, Gunner wrote:
On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:45:17 -0400, J wrote:

Millions of English used to live and make their living on public lands.
(snip)

Interesting world view you have there. Is that the result of a head
injury?

Gunner

Yeah, that IS kinda strange.


Kirkpatrick Sale
_Rebels_Against_the_Future_
Addison-Wesley Publishing 1995.

Some English lived in towns. Some owned land or were subjects of
landowners. The rest lived on public land. A big motive for turning
public land into private estates was to get rich producing wool.

Large numbers of displaced Scotch and Irish ended up in America, while
displaced English went to cities. Gin became popular as a cheap means
of slow suicide.