If you liked bad smells, bad teeth and absolutely no personal freedom at all - then yes, England was a merry place.
A large majority in 2010 wants to live this way cause they’re voting for serfdom.
Gee, then they lived twice as well as a Haitian does today. Still doesn’t sound like a “merrie” existence to me.
Today - the average middle class person pays 50%+ in taxes when all is said and done (federal, local, state, property, SS, sales, etc.)
Having had a semester of Chaucer in college, I’m glad I’m not living in medieval England, but liberals will have us in such circumstances, if we don’t stop them.
lol... they want to bring back serfdom.
You will be bound to the land of the local Lord. Bound to it.
One fascinating thing about the Medieval kitchen was that many had long “fishtanks” made of leather along one wall. These contained live fish, which were kept alive until they became dinner.
This guy must be an idiot.
The feudal system was created because of it offered protection from invaders and raiders. That part actually worked out, thats why you might see an overall better economic situation.
It started with local Lords offering land to Knights, becoming a vassal of the Lord.
It was a decentralized tyranny really, and it happened because people could no longer get protection from the King and his government.
People now are very arrogant - we believe that we live at the peak of society and civilization. In many ways, especially material goods it is true — but it is also possible that people of 1000 years ago could have many positive traits that we longer posess.
Apparently even early western culture produced results superior to those of many ‘modern’ cultures today...from the perspective of this bigoted ethnocentricist anyway (is it a hate crime to say this...better call the Southern Poverty Law Center and ask.)
Medieval people in England didn’t have the exploitation and parasitism we have to deal with and they had their own money system, mainly tally sticks, which represented pure bargain and did not involve fractional reserve banking, any sort of impossible bargain paradigm, or our present system of lending money into existence. Ellen Brown’s excellent “Web of Debt” goes into this and it wasn’t just England, much of the rest of Europe was much more prosperous than we’d imagine.
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More than that, England was an important center of the sheep industry. Wool was the key textile in cool and wet northern Europe. The importance of English wool is symbolized by the Woolsack on which the officer presiding over the House of Lords sits. Eventually this lead to the establishment of a prosperous domestic textile industry rather than exporting most of the wool to the Continent.
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Oh, I get it! Being a serf wasn’t half bad:)
Prepping us?