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So Long And Thanks For All The Fish
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Journal Article Excerpt <br />
The second enclosure movement and the construction of the public domain. <br />
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by James Boyle <br />
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The law locks up the man or woman <br />
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Who steals the goose from off the common <br />
But leaves the greater villain loose <br />
Who steals the common from off the goose. <br />
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The law demands that we atone <br />
When we take things we do not own <br />
But leaves the lords and ladies fine <br />
Who take things that are yours and mine. <br />
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The poor and wretched don't escape <br />
If they conspire the law to break; <br />
This must be so but they endure <br />
Those who conspire to make the law. <br />
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The law locks up the man or woman <br />
Who steals the goose from off the common <br />
And geese will still a common lack <br />
Till they go and steal it back. <br />
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Anonymous PART ONE: ENCLOSURE I <br />
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THE FIRST ENCLOSURE MOVEMENT <br />
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This poem (1) is one of the pithiest condemnations of the English enclosure movement, the process of fencing off common land and turning it into private property. (2) In a few lines, the poem manages to criticize double standards, expose the artificial and controversial nature of property rights, and take a slap at the legitimacy of state power. And it does this all with humor, without jargon, and in rhyming couplets. Academics (including this one) should take note. Like most of the criticisms of the enclosure movement, the poem depicts a world of rapacious, state-aided "privatization," a conversion into private property of something that had formerly been common property or, perhaps, had been outside of the property system altogether. Sir Thomas More went further, though he used sheep rather than geese to make his point. He argued that enclosure was not merely unjust in itself, but harmful in its consequences--a cause of economic inequality, crime, and social dislocation:<p>---<br>Diogenes said:<br />
"I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels."