Khari’s Reviews > The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age > Status Update

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.

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."

Monkeys form factions, they introduce their children to high ranking members to try and get some of the benefits. Yes. Nepotism exists among monkeys.

They also bribe each other. They form alliances in order to take down another monkey they don't like.

They can notice patterns over time: 'If I do this, then this happens' and use it to gather enough goodwill so there is no resistance to their takeover.

Politics.

Ah. Yes.
I remember why I was okay that this audiobook had to go back before I finished it.

This is another book that I listen to for 5 minutes and feel like I need a ranting session to clean my brain.

The VERY first sentence I listened to today was: "Politics began 5 centuries ago."

Facepalm.

No. It didn't. Politics began in creation (if your a creationist) and in monkeys (if your an evolutionist)

I'm not sure it gets any better. I just took a peak at the reviews, and I only read three random ones, so it's a really small sample size and I could have read three outliers, it's entirely possibly, but all the things they mentioned were things I read in the first chapter, that I thought were ridiculous arguments....so....sigh...am I going to be in the minority of one again?

Why aren't people turning away from it? Does it get better later?