🚀 go-pugleaf

"Tiny Human Ferret" <ixnayamspay_klaatu@earthops.net> wrote in message 
news:416C7C89.20309@earthops.net...
> sinister wrote:
>> <royls@telus.net> wrote in message 
>> news:416b7826.4909901@news.telus.net...
>>
>>>On 11 Oct 2004 16:48:24 -0700, fbonsignore@beethoven.com (Fabrizio J.
>>>Bonsignore) wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>royls@telus.net wrote in message 
>>>>news:<4169a3b7.20177640@news.telus.net>...
>>>>
>>>>>On 9 Oct 2004 19:20:20 -0700, fbonsignore@beethoven.com (Fabrizio J.
>>>>>Bonsignore) wrote:
>>
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>>>>>As for Europe`s development it was a _steady_ affair since the
>>>>>>breaking down of the Roman Empire,
>>>>>
>>>>>False.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Nothing changed much for 1000 years,
>>>
>>>Wrong.  The end of Roman power in the West created the anarchist
>>>utopia otherwise known as feudalism.  This system gradually evolved
>>>over the centuries into the monarchical nation-states of the early
>>>modern era.
>>
>>
>> In what precise way was feudalism anarchistic?  Or are you making a dig 
>> in the opposite direction, that many modern so-called libertarians are 
>> really adherents of feudalism in disguise?
>
> Since they're mostly a pack of wolves agitating for the repeal of laws 
> prohibiting the eating of sheep, I'd say "yes, that is what he meant," and 
> I would agree.

His critique is more subtle (and more damning).  See his response.

>
>
> -- 
> The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may
> often assume the appearance, and produce the effects,
> of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy.
>                   --Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
>