20 Mar 2023 5:48 am
FOS » 18 Mar 2023, 11:17 am » wrote: ↑ I was watching some 'conservatives' chaff about socialism on twitter earlier, and it hit me that they have this very absurd internal contridiction:
they seem to think it is asking far too much to pay money to better their society...yet they actually CELEBRATE the idea of paying with blood, via military service.
how can this mentality exist? if you can understand demanding a person get their legs blown off for 'america'...then how can it possibly be asking to much to ask them for 100$?
and if money matters that much to you while life does not, why not start living a life of crime?
Adapting by conforming to the monarchy system, Wiemar Germany or whatever.
A freeman became a serf usually through force or necessity. Sometimes the greater physical and legal force of a local magnate intimidated freeholders or allodial owners into dependency. Often a few years of crop failure, a war, or brigandage might leave a person unable to make his own way. In such a case, he could strike a bargain with a lord of a manor. In exchange for gaining protection, his service was required: in labour, produce, or cash, or a combination of all. These bargains became formalised in a ceremony known as "bondage", in which a serf placed his head in the lord's hands, akin to the ceremony of homage where a vassal placed his hands between those of his overlord. These oaths bound the lord and his new serf in a feudal contract and defined the terms of their agreement.[17] Often these bargains were severe.
A 7th-century Anglo Saxon "Oath of Fealty" states:
By the Lord before whom this sanctuary is holy, I will to N. be true and faithful, and love all which he loves and shun all which he shuns, according to the laws of God and the order of the world. Nor will I ever with will or action, through word or deed, do anything which is unpleasing to him, on condition that he will hold to me as I shall deserve it, and that he will perform everything as it was in our agreement when I submitted myself to him and chose his will.