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Dishonest as always, eh? Those first two statements aren't even accurate descriptions of my own beliefs. Also, very nice ad hominem attack on Jouvenel. Shows your true colors. I don't talk to dishonest actors. I'll be ignoring you from now on.

@Navarro I see we have nothing to discuss then. You don't seem to be very interested in arguing with me, so I'm not going to argue against you. I mean characterizing me as some kind of neo-feudalist is a mistake you've made again and again and again, in spite of my repeated corrections. Saying...

@Navarro Do you have any serious points to make towards me, or are you just chock full of hatred towards Catholics? We didn't see premodern states engaging in total war or taxing its citizenry to the extent that modern states did. Bertrand de Jouvenel points this out. We can also note that the...

Well, it's going to be a matter of who can gain influence over the people and rally them to their cause, no matter their means. Then things wouldn't have changed all that much, now would it? I suppose that's one way of looking at it, though I struggle to see how our society is more...

True, he did say more than that. But I say that, as a general principle, if you want to bring back an aristocracy, you'd ought to learn to stop acting like a democratic citizen start learning how to be a proper subject. Is that fair? Yes, but you ultimately don't decide that, do you? It'll be...

I argue for inequality, and I can conceive of myself being forced to live as the equivalent of a serf and be satisfied with it. If you think that a system of inequality is just, how you end up materially shouldn't really invalidate the theory, now would it?

Would you be willing to accept that you yourself would probably be an inferior in the society that you're trying to create?

Funnily enough, the idea of equality under the law in the French Revolution was just as destructive as the idea of equality of outcome in the Communist Revolutions of the twentieth century. Weird, huh?

We have to ask though: why did the French Revolution happen? How could the French people just suddenly go nuts? Is anybody asking this? The answer goes back to medieval politics, specifically, the long-standing fights between the Church, the monarchy, and the feudal nobility. See, the nobles...