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As to the whole question of equality, democracy, etc., I would personally tend to agree with C. S. Lewis: http://www.tlchrist.info/cs_lewis.htm

It ended with China getting carved up like a birthday cake between the European powers? You're sounding like a supervillain right now. It most likely wouldn't.

Tell me again how well a society built from the ground up for stability worked out for Imperial China? You want to genetically engineer away mankind's tendency to evil? Until some people who aren't part of it walk over it.

He has said that he views social mobility as a bad thing IIRC. EDIT: Found it: So yet again, ITNOL shows he knows nothing about how medieval societies actually worked. It did vary according to time and place - in England the rule was that any knight could make a knight, but they would also...

ITNOL thinks that any kind of social mobility (which also ensures the elite doesn't become ossified) is a bad thing. So in essence it's like he sees the caricature left-wing historiography makes of the past and wants to restore that.

It's essentially Brave New World or some other such similar dystopia.

The issue again is that whereas the Communists were honest about making a clean break from the past, the Nazis wrapped themselves up in ideals of patriotism and support for tradition ... which itself made those ideals toxic to an extent. The thing about Nazism is that its form of barbarism was...

It is true that giving the elite a defined social status can work to control their behaviour, but the aristocrats of the Middle Ages were, to be blunt, too powerful to be really restrained in such a way, given that the Medieval kings functioned more as "firsts among equals" than real sovereigns...

I literally just paraphrased your own words. Stop pretending you don't believe what you believe. Because you see, that's how you work. You say something absurdly outrageous and offensive to the political sensitivities of almost everyone here, then when challenged on it start whining about how...

Now this is something I can agree with. You're not a neo-feudalist, but you ... blame the end of feudalism for all society's problems and call it an usurpation say it's a moral obligation that some form of serfdom exists and furthermore that we other posters here are obligated to live such a...

Definitely. I mean, a society like our own has not one elite group but several, and what would work to constrain one might not on the other. Elites tend to start out good, since they actually have to work to establish and maintain their power, and gradually become corrupt as they coast on...

But the system is terrible, the system replaces a de jure caste system with a de facto class system. Who cares that military generals, CEOs, and politicians all plainly prove that hierarchy is still a very deep part of a democratic society, those folks don't have de jure legal privileges over...

What this is is a perversion of the concept of equality, namely its invocation being used in an attempt to gain legal privileges.

I am surprised that you are so exultant over a political structure that arose from a mix of poorly-thought-out Late Roman economic policies and a quirk of Germanic tribal succession laws. But then, you call yourself a nutjob in your user title and have admitted that none of your political ideas...

The whole post was inane, but this was particularly eye-roll-worthy. Ain't gonna happen. If it's strong enough to maintain the social order (which includes protecting it from external threats) it's strong enough to want a piece of the pie for itself, if for no reason than if they stop doing...

In all likelihood, outside of a nuclear war or asteroid strike, it's going to be someone who asks "how high?" when Russia or China say "jump!". You know, you could always make the effort to become a resident of Vatican City, San Marino, Monaco, Liechtenstein or Andorra. Or go to Africa if you...

I mean, if our civilisation totally collapses in such a way as to bring about a neo-feudalistic society, it won't be you taking over. It'll be those who already have wealth and power in our society retreating to their country estates and watching the cities burn. Which most likely, in the...

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