Status Updates From The Sovereign Individual: M...

How does he know that there was no distinction between rich and poor people in the middle ages between townspeople and foreign people?How does he know that?Because, you see, most people, most foreign people in most towns, people in most far people, everyone they couldn't write.So how could they leave behind their feelings about the matter?So you're relying on high status people saying what everybody else believes.

It's not the adoption of military uniforms.It's the readoption of military uniforms because of the very least , the romans had them

It's like he thinks common people have zero intelligence and agency.

Soldiers going to war in foreign countries to the future will seem like knight wearing leg irons as self-flagellation, to the people of the future.

Again. People don't only go to war because of loyalty to a nation state. Sometimes they do it because they want to protect just their family. Or because they have the ability to predict the future and know if they don't stamp out this thing now, it will take over.

So humans have to be tricked to go to war, because the control of a piece of ground that they will have no access to or use for isn't enough of a gain for them to join in the violence...

So humans are incapable of conducting long tern thought? You know, that if the Saxons control this land, they will have a foothold from which to expand into our territory, killing our women and raiding our crops?

Hold up...I think....

He just said "[The concept of citizenship and mass democracy] will falter as the nation state falters, causing every bit of dismay in Washington as the erosion of chivalry caused in the Duke of Burgundy 500 years ago."

Does he think chivalry died 500 years ago?

Has he never read Don Quijote? Don Quijote was written in the early 1600s and is a satire about chivalry.

I just can't get over it. 'I'm just going to assert that Politics began in the 1500s because of the industrial revolution and ignore that there had been governments and political maneuvering and lying since governments existed."