@VaxxSabbath @Humpleupagus @Diceynes @msbellows @JedDrudge @eriner @CoQ_10 I only disagree with the last part:
"honestly, I'm pretty much at the point where I consider feudalism to be the natural default condition of humanity, because all attempts to pretend otherwise have failed; it seems necessary to acknowledge this reality going forward"
Of we could get rid of the (((influence))), we may find out that we could put something nice together. But with them controling the levers of political power and the money printing press, you may be right, back to feudalism.