By: Michael van der Riet

Michael van der Riet — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 09:55:15 +0000

According to Bonham-Carter “The English Village” the breakdown of the feudal system and individualism began with the Hundred Years War when ties with the land and the rule of the manor were broken. A tidal wave of returning soldiers created mass unemployment and the local feudal lord washed his hands of responsibility for his serfs. Faced with the choice of starvation or drifting into the cities in the hope that something would come up, many took the latter. I fear that the social classes upon whom Frost bases his history made up only a couple of per cent of the population and it was not from them from whom the entrepreneurs came, a classical education in Latin and Greek being not always a good proxy for practical ability.

By: Quip

Quip — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 23:22:03 +0000

So selective breeding created the WEIRD people around today. It might also explain the obliviousness of so many to the flood of immigrants, the openness to woke foolishness and the lack of loyalty to family. Time will tell if it leads to extinction or the rise of a new group that is not so gullible.

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By: Michael van der Riet

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