How can we have feudalism without Vikings?
Mr Opinion,
Who needs Vikings when you've got Academics & Bureaudroids !

Kotkin has written many very perceptive papers. Thanks, Hanrahan.

Some Idiot mentioned the Vikings: yes, indeed, one can see parallels with the rioters and thugs who sought to lynch Mike Pence for disobeying Trumpf:

http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000007598548/capitol-riot-new-video-impeachment.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20210210&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=cta&regi_id=127104467&segment_id=51399&user_id=35fd54d942ac9b9e288ef933afd6d6f5

Yes, the US came close to dropping back into archaic feudalism, I don't know about neo-feudalism. Thanks to Biden, that's all far less likely now.

Joe

Other things that Knows-Everything Loudmouth will think are "completely unlikely" is that: "The new overlords with their censoring of views are reminiscent of the Middle Ages Catholic Church with more advanced technology".

How about 'credentialed experts will replace democracy'? That's already happening.

Or, "Everyone else (other than the technocrats) will come to subsist on some combination of 'gig work' (part time work) and government aid". Again, already happening amongst young people, who have been kept ignorant of the past.

individual,

Who needs Vikings when you've got Foul-Mouth?

Everyone knows feudalism is bad.

Everyone knows the Orange Man is bad. Or at least everyone who isn't one of the ungood and who does engage in doublethink.

Therefore they are both bad. Therefore the Orange Man wanted to institute feudalism....or something. No need for actual evidence or even a passing attempt at suggesting evidence.

This is what passes for logical thought among the TDS crowd.

Therefore the Orange Man wanted to institute feudalism....or something.
mhaze,
I don't know what he wanted nor would anyone else but from what I saw, he did things that went against feudalism, not for it ! That's why I imagine he sacked so many of them but then their remaining mates ganged up on him because they knew what was in store for them !
Sacking incompetent & corrupt people is not a vote winner !