Dear Donna Barr:
Somehow I missed the occasion when you posted at Wolf Food, contrasting two ways of life, which you called "socialism" and "feudalism". My wife had this to say about that:
So did you notice that she said there are only two kinds of government? Socialism GOOD, feudalism BAD. You didn't feel like responding to that? She's comparing good socialism to bad feudalism. Very much a case of "give a dog a bad name and hang him." How about comparing bad socialism with good feudalism? It does exist, you know, to the present day. Well actually, they both do.
She has a point. Tonga is a present-day example of good, healthy feudalism in action. Kerala is an example of good socialism, in case anybody wants to say there's no such thing.
If anything, I would tend to say that feudalism is the system under which it would be hardest to starve. If you were out of food, you'd go to your lord, and if he didn't have anything, he'd go to the king (or ask the other lords who serve him as vassals if they have any food).
3 comments:
"Despose."
Is that "despise" and "depose"?
We have a new word, ladies and gentlemen.
For an old concept.
Donna is here commenting on the comment she earlier posted on my posting below this one.
At 8:27 AM, Donna said...
I despose all governments.
But then, I'm part Rom.
And there's noplace you can go any more on this fricking planet without a fricking passport.
This is WRONG.
At 9:02 AM, john_m_burt said...
It's going to get worse. Before long, USAns will have to present an internal passport at every traffic stop, just like in Europe.
*sigh*
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