RE: The Caliphate (Kalifat)
December 13, 2023 at 3:02 pm
(This post was last modified: December 13, 2023 at 3:07 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 13, 2023 at 2:25 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: it practical is for everyone, else they would have died.
it may not have seemed ideal for everyone else, particularly if the ideal is formulated by a third party in a different time and place, but not ideal is not the same as not practical.
They did die...at a phenomenal rate. The amount of effort and time (and blood) spent just to maintain the system strongly suggests that people had other ideas about what was practical even then. The question of whether or not a thing worked is inevitably followed by another. For whom. Anyone suggesting that any part of the feudal system worked for anyone other than the feudal lords has already stepped off a cliff, imo. They're not even talking about feudalism at that point, and quite literally can't be, because that's how feudalism was organized, specifically.
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