by Quinny » Wed 15 Jul 2009, 07:05:30
So you think the aristocracy will manage to put the genie back in the bottle do you.
Most on here and in my experience in real life won't even accept being ruled by the majority never mind an unelected elite.
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Which accounts for why during the crisis of land shortage at the end of the fuedal era, we reverted back to stone age tribalism.
Now for a bit of facetiousness:
Your ass has grown much too used to having a warm, egalitarian toilet into which to defecate. In addition, theres no turning the clock back to the Privilege of letting the local laird fcuk your virginal wife on your wedding night...
Now, I am rather busy. If you have something consistent to declare (I presume you aren't seriously advocating a return to the days when your wife would have been the local lairds fcukbuddy), please, please lets hear it or please go and find something useful to do with yourself.
You know too much movie history and not enough real history AD.
Prima Nocturne was not actually a common practice, not only did the Church object in most places and times, the spouse of the Noble involved usually did as well, and if you don't think a wife influences decision making then you have known very different women then I have. All that aside Europe is not the world (I know a lot of European descent people have a hard time grasping this), Monarchies through history have ruled Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, large portions of South and Central America. Pretty much everywhere humans gather in an agricultural civilization they end up with a Monarchy and a hierarchical nobility structure running things. It was only the easy availability of energy coupled with industrial production technology that brought an end to this, take away the technology and the normal structure will return automatically.
In small populations we usually dismiss it as Tribalism, but by definition if your power extends to multiple villages you are not a 'Tribal Leader' no matter how many time the MSM calls you that.
Don't let your preference for a high tech culture with so called 'democracy' taught from the cradle fool you, this is not a normal way for Human's to live culturally speaking.