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HerrSchwab posted an update 4 years, 9 months ago

American demographer, academic and author Joel Kotkin. John and Joel discuss some of the key theses of Joel’s widely-praised recent book, ‘The Coming of Neo-Feudalism’.

Joel shines the spotlight on the Western progressive elite or, as he terms them, the ‘new clerisy’, who sideline and silence anyone who speak or, increasingly, think against the orthodoxy. He paints a worrying comparison between this status quo, the Chinese experience of authoritarianism and the medieval feudalism known to Europe for hundreds of years.

Joel Kotkin is often described as “America’s uber-geographer”, and is an internationally recognized authority on global economic, political and social trends. Mr. Kotkin is the Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, California and Executive Director of the Houston-based Urban Reform Institute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDO1zhDi7BI
- Billy Bob replied 4 years, 9 months ago
  I wonder how much these kinda guys are paid to tell us this stuff? Another technique in the mind perception profession.
  - HerrSchwab replied 4 years, 9 months ago
    You have to bring up some evidence! Do you object
    the neo feudalism and climate change combo?
    - Billy Bob replied 4 years, 9 months ago
      
      Today I talked to a smart customer service guy in Oregon. We were on a recorded call so he couldn’t say much about Portland or the extreme heat wave. Rather difficult to gather any evidence in today’s cultural environment. The Master’s have mastered the art of art. I do enjoy Dostoevsky’s writings to capture the nostalgia of setting the peasants free.
      
      HerrSchwab replied 4 years, 9 months ago
      
      Dostoevsky was influenced by Bakunin.
      Btw Its Oregano not Oregon, you talked to fella in Oregano
      
      Billy Bob replied 4 years, 9 months ago
      
      I like his writing style, the message not so much.
      Yeah I have a friend I used to work with in the 80’s that retired from the USPS and moved there for the oregano. He calls every once in while to talk nonsense.
- FiatLux replied 4 years, 9 months ago
  Sounds like Kotkin has it right. But you don’t have to be an internationally recognized authority to see the blindingly glaring, obvious parallels between the contemporary West and feudalism — minus the cultural achievements of the Middle Ages.