What you can learn about medieval Europe if you focus on peasants

Re:What you can learn about medieval Europe if you focus on ... by remarkEon on Friday February 12, 2021 @02:57AM (#26111558)

Look, I’m not making an argument in favor of serfdom (far from it). I’m pointing out that many current iterations of democracy have become quite corrupt, so much so that the difference between it and feudalism is one measured on the margins (your details). Every couple days an article gets upvoted on this website that describes how the economies in (western) democracies have metastasized to the point where it’s participants are just cogs, working for a massive corporate enterprise that explicitly does not care about them, voting in elections about a government that quite often does the opposite of what is in their expressed interests, and/or are stuck in an infinite loop of debt-enabled credentialism.

Okay yeah that’s not de jure feudalism. Inching closer and closer to de facto, though.

Edit: to say this again, because apparently it’s needed. I am not in favor of feudalism.

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Re:What you can learn about medieval Europe if you focus on ... by mrmonkeyman on Friday February 12, 2021 @03:24AM (#26111687)

But still lightyears off. You are dramatizing our priviledged existence. Billions (literal) would offer their firstborn son to be "cogs" working a "massive corporate enterprise". What you are describing is the good part of modern life, I suggest you don't look at the bad parts if this already disturbs your soul.

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Re:What you can learn about medieval Europe if you focus on ... by tsimionescu on Friday February 12, 2021 @03:40AM (#26111751)

I didn't take your comments as being in favor of feudalism, I took it as being a bit too cynical of modern states. The clarifications in your new comment make it clearer that you are more talking about a direction, not saying we already live in neo-feudalism, and I agree with you completely that it is something we're inching towards.

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Re:What you can learn about medieval Europe if you focus on ... by remarkEon on Friday February 12, 2021 @04:06AM (#26111843)

Thanks, and yes I should’ve been more clear about my intent. I am a defender of democracy, and what I said should’ve been better placed in the context of what I actually mean. Namely, the decay of competency and the corruption we see in many democracies will drift to a point where the situations of their citizens start to mimic or echo a version of feudalism.

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