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Our minds become slaves to those we see as having total power to control us and to cause pain to us. We are quick to give up control of ourselves to those who have the power to rule us as long as they also have the power to feed us. This is the fundamental construct of a feudal society.

~ Majid Kazmi

Majid Kazmi Capitalism Compromise Control Economics Employment Feudal Feudalism Giving Up Job Politics Power Rich Ruling Ruling Class Slavery Wealth Work Work Hard Working

While I have the floor, here's a question that's been bothering me for some time. Why do so few writers of heroic or epic fantasy ever deal with the fundamental quandary of their novels . . . that so many of them take place in cultures that are rigid, hierarchical, stratified, and in essence oppressive? What is so appealing about feudalism, that so many free citizens of an educated commonwealth like ours love reading about and picturing life under hereditary

~ David Brin

David Brin Fantasy Feudalism Writing

The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time—

~ Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson Corporations Democracy Feudalism Government Power

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

~ Eugene V. Debs

Eugene V. Debs Aristocracy Capitalism Feudalism Inequality Justice Labor Poverty Wealth

The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.

~ Maaza Mengiste

Maaza Mengiste Class Feudalism Wealth

I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even -- I'd go berserk. I'd go crazy. Either everyone slides back into the Dark Ages or no one does.

~ Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Apocalypse Consumer Culture End Of The Word Feudalism Technology

-I got the conch! --Piggy (in Lord of the Flies), attempting Democracy

~ William Golding

William Golding Conch Democracy Feudalism Piggy Serfdom Vox Populi

The conservative does not defend the Old Regime; he speaks on behalf of old regimes—in the family, the factory, the field. There, ordinary men, and sometimes women, get to play the part of little lords and ladies, supervising their underlings as if they all belong to a feudal estate . . . The task of this type of conservatism---democratic feudalism—-becomes clear: surround these old regimes with fences and gates, protect them from meddlesome intruders like the state or a social movement, while descanting on mobility and innovation, freedom and the future.

~ Corey Robin

Corey Robin Conservatism Democracy Feudalism Freedom
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