Posted on 02/05/2017 3:17:03 PM PST by Lorianne
You’re not wrong. However, that system was still better than the one that existed before and it produced important social developments that paved the way for the ascension of Western Europe to world supremacy for centuries to come.
You are right about the manor system.
I’ve all but given up explaining historical progress to people.
Especially progressives seem unable to understand, well, progress ... how slow and incremental it is. They expect all of human history to be as it is today or some idealized future. They pretty much rebuke history.
I don’t think he is presenting that way of life as the ideal, but rather that it would be different than today and possibly be what we might make out things if we had to.
Of course things might be worse ... or better. No doubt it would be different than what he portrays. No one knows. That’s why futuristic fiction is fiction.
Let me know, I belong to several wine clubs, can reserve a nice picnic table right by Dry Creek.
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