Having had a semester of Chaucer in college, I’m glad I’m not living in medieval England, but liberals will have us in such circumstances, if we don’t stop them.
Chaucer’s England would be a nice place to live, as long as one had a supply of antibiotics, good toothpaste, plenty of room deodorizers, flea spray, rat poison, a couple of good airtight (or at least Franklin) stoves, a coal powered refrigerator, proper firarms and plenty of ammunition....
See, Chaucer, there’s a good example. Look at all of those middle class people on pilgrimage in the Canterbury Tales. And what was a pilgrimage but a vacation with a religious rationale? People could afford vacations. The people in the stories sounded well enough off as far as that went. Hey, England has always been a green and pleasant land, I don’t know why these fool anthropologists don’t understand that. Because it messes with their preconceived notions of ‘progressivism’, per chance?