Reflections of the Future [Part I]
 
 Feudalism
 
 I see the term Feudalism thrown about carelessly as of late, in specific referring to the great reset and tech elites. It seems worth addressing and an interesting topic to me as well. Are the elite trying to force a new feudalism where you will own nothing, eat the bug burger and live in a pod? To answer that we first must define feudalism as best we can. Traditionally throughout the pre-enlightenment West it is a top down hierarchical system with three or four tiers. At the top we have a king or monarch who distributed lands to nobles in exchange for military service and is mixed with the manorial system, in which peasants or surfs lived on the vassals land and were subject to what is effectively a rent in either labor, goods or payment in exchange for military protection. The Crown> Nobles> Vassals> Peasants. The details were not set in stone and varied from manor to manor, from lord to lord, estate to estate and vassal to vassal, with different degrees of free tenants(peasants) and tax levels, holdings, etc. In some cases the church was heavily involved as well. Another well known feudal society in fairly recent history was Japan, arranged down the same lines by different names with shoguns initially under the hereditary Emperor(when there was one). There was little to no class mobility but if your vassal was good, your life as a pleasant was good, and if you were displeased with the crown as a noble you and your bros could dethrone him or leave for a new kingdom(or both). The key to all the variations of feudalism and the takeaway is simplicity itself: the oath(homage & fealty). A man is only as good as his word.
 
 Does this sound at all like the bugman's consoomer utopia? So then what is the system beyond our current neoliberal corporatism?