CAN YOU HAVE CHIVALRY WITHOUT ARISTOCRACY?
The west is synonymous with Christendom. Christendom is synonymous with Aristocracy. Aristocracy with chivalry. Chivalry with the means by which males seek status by service. Aristocracy is synonymous with property ownership. Because aristocracy is private government. The unstated property of the western high trust society is the break with paternalistic familial-ism: universal-ism by outlawing cousin marriages and therefore outlawing tribal property, tribal inheritance, and tribal political power. Status in this environment can only be obtained by actions.
The high trust society is a product of chivalry, aristocracy, property, without which males have no means of status seeking.
(I’m still working on this. But the basic problem is that Ferguson’s six killer apps aren’t enough of the story.)
Source date (UTC): 2012-12-07 08:09:00 UTC
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