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Believe me, Kilroy, you are not alone there. Still, much as I'm also unwilling to part with modern conveniences, it'd great if we devised a system where we had both those and what @Bear Ribs mentioned (but without the drawbacks of either). Or, y'know, whichever higher power you prefer, for...

The problem I've run into with a lot of Monarchs personally is that they seem to act like they will be one of the playable characters in a Crusader Kings game when the reality is that they'd be a random courier at best or more than likely just a number on the screen. Ironically it's the opposite...

Somewhat, though considering the havoc modern weapons can wreck, we’ll have to survive and rebuild from the Crisis of the 21st Century first in order for the comparison to matter. (And that, courtesy of WMDs, is very much in question, I think.) Nevertheless, I suspect an “Ascendant America”...

At any rate, I think we’re all on the same page in agreeing that the current system is unsustainable. Between lots of debt spending, rising populism, and an increasingly fearful and desperate elite prepared to pull every underhanded trick in the book to cling onto power for just a bit longer...

Even if technological progress is damnation in disguise, short of something like nuclear war, that’s still hardly worse than dying at thirty from a flesh wound that became gangrenous or starving to death because your harvest failed. Really, that’s no way to live, and any God who’d chastise us...

Look, I get the modern world is far from perfect, but as others have noted, it’s myopic to assert that everything new soiled a glorious past that should never have ended, and reflects the people who believe in a false “Whiggish progress or pre-Enlightenment tradition” dichotomy more it does...