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diff --git a/src/blog/lament-for-the-commons.md b/src/blog/lament-for-the-commons.md index 16e0687..a75a530 100644 --- a/src/blog/lament-for-the-commons.md +++ b/src/blog/lament-for-the-commons.md @@ -17,24 +17,24 @@ The thing that gets me the most about all this is just how much of the past 10-2 I don't pretend to have the answers for how to get more people to care about things like service continuity or not putting the majority of the English-speaking world's knowledge on a single-digit number of websites backed by corporations that are in advertising business, not the information-hosting business. Most people don't think about things like that and shouldn't have to, because it's nerd shit that people like me should care about making happen for them, they just want to go to wherever the *stuff* is. -> The law locks up the man or woman -> Who steals the goose off the common -> But leaves the greater villain loose -> Who steals the common from the goose. -> -> The law demands that we atone -> When we take things we do not own -> But leaves the lords and ladies fine -> Who takes things that are yours and mine. -> -> The poor and wretched don't escape -> If they conspire the law to break; -> This must be so but they endure -> Those who conspire to make the law. -> -> The law locks up the man or woman -> Who steals the goose from off the common -> And geese will still a common lack -> 'Till they go and steal it back. -> +> The law locks up the man or woman +> Who steals the goose off the common +> But leaves the greater villain loose +> Who steals the common from the goose. +> +> The law demands that we atone +> When we take things we do not own +> But leaves the lords and ladies fine +> Who takes things that are yours and mine. +> +> The poor and wretched don't escape +> If they conspire the law to break; +> This must be so but they endure +> Those who conspire to make the law. +> +> The law locks up the man or woman +> Who steals the goose from off the common +> And geese will still a common lack +> 'Till they go and steal it back. +> > -- Author unknown, 18th century England |