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You say you don't want to return to it, and you blame its end for all modern ills and cast it as an "usurpation" (which is used to denote an illegitimate transfer of power) by an alliance of power-seeking kings and the merchant class. Stop speaking out of both sides of your mouth and dancing...

This is literally you responding to me saying that technological advances helped to end the era of feudalism and feudalism would have to destroy or restrict access to modern technology to rise again. You try and reassure me that the feudalism of 2020 would be different from the feudalism of 1215...

You literally posted an article suggesting that this is already becoming the case (with a distinctly negative tone, but you seemed to view it as positive), in response to my argument that feudalism makes no sense in the modern technological context. That seems to indicate that you view the tech...

Ah, as I predicted. I'll snip the whining from here on out. I mean, when you blame its passing for all the issues the modern world faces, and suggest that the tech barons of Silicon Valley will make an adequate replacement (very odd given that they aren't exactly well known for being...

"But it's okay because it made sense within the strict honour system of feudal Japan!" Yeah, and killing club-footed infants makes sense within Amazonian tribes for whom they're just useless mouths to feed because they can't contribute to the tribe's hunts, but that doesn't make their acts of...

Not "I can kill anyone I want for any reason" but "I can kill anyone I want if I deem them to have offended me". Just like the Roman paterfamilias couldn't kill his children or sell them into slavery for any reason, but only if they were congenitally deformed, a girl, or angered him somehow. I...

There was one incident of it carried out by the British to break the siege of Pittsburgh by native Americans. Which was probably ineffective.

https://wiki.samurai-archives.com/index.php?title=Tsujigiri https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/tsujigiri/ It is also a well-documented historical fact that the Samurai had the legal privilege of kiri-sute gomen (literally, "permission to cut and leave"), that is to arbitrary kill members of the...

I mean, he's made it clear in this thread and others that he doesn't particularly care about the moral behaviour of his neo-feudal rulership class, merely that it exists and is unquestionably in charge. It need not even be Christian or particularly well-disposed towards the Christian faith (as...

Sorry, for the quadruple-posting, y'all. The sheer level of ignorance mingled with a disturbing level of amorality and disregard for reality just overwhelmed me, like the visage of Great Cthulhu.

Not to mention the ceaseless complaining that everybody who disagrees with him is an evil sophist deliberately misrepresenting his views. And the constant repetition of the initial assertions as if they constituted a valid counter-argument ... Speaking of sophism ... When confronted by an...

So our dear friend here wants to be legally banned from leaving his home town?

Medieval society also wasn't particularly harmonious. Even ignoring peasant revolts, you had squabbles between the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope, nobles rebelling and intriguing to make themselves king, nobles fighting private wars against each other (both within and outside the realm), kings...

Technological advancement inherently shapes (and is shaped by) ideology and politics, so this is incoherent. "The world of 1215, but with iPods" is a contradiction in terms. The world of 1215 could not support iPods or their technological requirements (electricity, the internet, plastics...

No, we just need a neo-feudal class of tech oligarchs. Never mind that they're at best indifferent to Christianity, have no concern for national loyalties, etc. - what matters is they're unquestionably in charge, and they make sure to let you know it! No, you see, the ruling class can't be...

Not many privileged classes literally had an enshrined right to do things like this for centuries: I wonder if you would be fine with such incidents being commonplace in your neo-hierarchical society, or if you would humbly expose your neck to the slicing blade of the passing noblemen. After...

While Samurai killing peasants to test their swords was technically a crime (which wasn't enforced until the Edo period) it was still so common that a word was developed just to describe the practice. A Samurai could legally kill any non-Samurai on the spot if he believed he had been...

The assumption that aristocrats inherently have noblesse oblige is ridiculously wrong as well - in Europe that only happened due to Christianity, and even then imperfectly. Meanwhile in feudal Japan they were literally slaughtering passing peasants just to test the sharpness of their shiny new...

Now, we see from an actual look at history that communism and proto-communism had its greatest success (Russia, France, et al) where there was a distinct lack of social mobility. Feudal society collapsed when gunpowder meant that the aristocracy no longer had a monopoly on military force and...