oh I should have slept, but hell if I'm not sorry

[crankyoldman]

I was out until about 3 am last night, which was fun but it makes today kind of... difficult. Pair that with the fact the internet here keeps dipping out (likely power fluctuations from the storms yesterday) and I've been pretty slow. I don't really have much to report about last night other than it was fun seeing people, much talk was had and I am apparently "less spazzy". XD Well, I could see that, as some of these people I haven't seen since before the divorce, so that probably factors in a little. I have gotten a lot less goofy. Part of me wishes I could be more of a clown like I used to be. One step at a time I guess.

I left work early due to crazy weather. And also being tired. XD

Some links!

+ This is an interesting clump of articles. Makes me think of how people post pictures of "awful cosplays" and proceed to skewer them. I can see making criticisms of poor quality of costumes, but often it's about the appearance of the person as a whole, and I often find that kind of snark to be in poor taste. In fact, some of my favorite cosplays are less how the person themselves looks in the costume and more the craftsmanship. Especially considering how in the video game/anime fandoms most of the characters are all this sort of weird Caucasian/Japanese mix that's unattainable for most of the population.

+ Well if this isn't the most interesting political article I've read in a while. I'm going to leave this without comment so ya'll can soak it in.

~Cendri

Comments

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

It depends on which era and continent you're looking at. There were times in which the knight class had most of the power, but since fiefs were organized small enough they could never become more than just a lord of an area. That's what I remember, at least, don't quote me on it. He uses loose definitions of a lot of things (judging by other articles I read). The general language didn't get muddled for me, but that's mainly because I've been reading a lot of academic articles and he's surprisingly less thick than a lot of that. XD

It's not the first time I've heard feudalism being talked to as a next step from capitalism--Neal Stephenson pretty much uses that in all his cyberpunk books (called something else, usually) as the dominant backdrop of government (interestingly, in both the US and China which were the main settings of two of my favorite books of his).

I was mainly pleased to see something where it was from a moderate perspective, and wasn't just mud slinging. XD

~Cendri

[astralavator.livejournal.com]

Well, his example about the company didn’t make much sense because an average everyday person won’t have the funding to buy himself a significant vote from a major corporation and if they did why would they waste resource buying into a company to have the company doing their lobbying rather than doing it in a more traditional way of bribing.

It seems a bit misleading to say feudalism is then next step from capitalism as didn’t capitalism lead to the end of feudalism or so my old capitalist history books say. ^_~

Not that after capitalism declines it won’t because a feudalism but it doesn’t carry the same type of implications.