Navarro
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Social mobility, from what I've seen in modern society, is one of the things that's causing alienation and cultural disintegration and is a direct result of individualism's leveling effect.
Now, we see from an actual look at history that communism and proto-communism had its greatest success (Russia, France, et al) where there was a distinct lack of social mobility.
The old feudal orders had peasant revolts caused by famines, but the society didn't fall apart until the kings started centralizing all the power to create absolutist, proto-individualist states.
Feudal society collapsed when gunpowder meant that the aristocracy no longer had a monopoly on military force and the mounted knight along with the castle became militarily obsolete. I wonder if you're planning to turn that back somehow, because that's the only way you'll get your desired restoration of feudal society.
You claim that social mobility is able to appease people's envy, but I don't believe envy can be satisfied by anything.
Again, from an actual look at history we see that countries where there was a strong level of social mobility were able to fend off communist ideological attack better than countries where there wasn't (Russia, China, most of Latin America).
In the end, it's about what you value. I don't think us peasants should be living like lords, and you do.
Be the change you want to see in the world. Go live in a medieval hovel then, if that's what you think you "should" be doing. After all, peasants like you shouldn't be living like lords, am I right? I mean, the modern equivalent of "peasants" certainly don't live like modern "lords" - class structures always have existed, and always will - so your conclusion seems to be that what's wrong with society is all technological progress after approximately 1215. Because those technological advances - gunpowder, the printing press, et al - are what ended feudalism as a social structure. It was not a case of kings suddenly deciding to absolutise their domains, but advances in military technology drastically weakening the role of heavy cavalry (the upkeep of which was the starting point of the feudal system) and rendering the castles which represented the power base of the military aristocracy almost totally ineffective against artillery bombardment.
What I'm talking about is restoring a sense of sovereignty among the people. Instead of embracing the lie that we the people consented to have the people in charge be in charge or that the people in charge "deserve" to be in charge by virtue of their merit.
>Restore/create a sense of popular sovereignty.
>Do away with the idea that the people choose their rulers.
Pick one.
Also, literally all countries on Earth have claimed that their rulers deserved to be in charge by virtue of some form of merit, be it military, religious, hereditary or otherwise. Which is fairly obvious, since all rulers need to be seen as legitimate in order to rule.
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