We live in a feudal form of government. We are serfs paying tribute to lords, and they don’t care about us.
At first I took your statement, as I do many of my own, as typical FR hyperbole.
I think you are quite correct, hyperbole aside. What began as a noble exercise in a democratic republic has insidiously changed into a distinctly feudal system over the last 231 years .
Yes. I think the old America never was the America that we and our ancestors thought it was. Most of the good things from that America came from the remnants of a common cultural inheritance that we still lived and breathed, but the culture itself became more and more attached to a view that misattributed the good things about America to a utopian worldview — autonomous rationalism — that actually erodes communities and countries over time. And now here we are, largely unable to rise above the modern bread-and-circuses that surrounds us, because we’re too strongly attached to the ways of thinking that brought us here in the first place.