Whenever someone "educates masses" you immediately must smell Stalin in there

Knowledge is something that by nature demands to "tread carefully", it is something with its own gravity, it demands seekers, it lies there, concealed, ambiguous, cryptic

In the past, knowledge was concealed in spiritual teaching, and its banal and simplified distribution was outright forbidden

To reduce knowledge, and this goes for academia as well, to mere quotation of publicly available informational pollution is the sign of this age. Democracy, democracy everywhere

Too true

All crusaders for the publicity and wide distribution of knowledge are subconscious pioneers of plebeian ambitions, like Martin Luther for example

But then, what to do about ‘the masses’

That question itself is subversive if taken as a basic presumption

If the basic presumption of life is nursing, then we have the wrong mentality

It's like romance - if you ask yourself "what do women want" you have already subscribed to placating women

I have to change my entire frame of reference, hold on

weak minded people have blood-sucking as their main mode of operation, and that would be the hidden mechanics behind most of what they do

So, what does it suggest? I like the idea of letting go of this notion of trying to control others

MASSES => FEUDALISM

MIDDLE CLASSES => KSHATRIYA

OTHER => THEIR HOME CONTINENTS

DEMOCRACY IS HIV+

Feudalism wouldn't be feasible now since firearms and explosives could be built in garages. The elite can't exactly bulldoze or bomb it's productive economy in response to domestic insurgency against its power. This is a historical constant anyway. Feudalism died with the advent of firearms and further back with the advent of pikes.

Besides the industrial elite would absolutely abhor feudalism since it places ownership in the hands of a monarch who gives title to people to run stuff.

And that trickles down to the mass of proles

perhaps Kevlar would maintain the balance of power required for feudalism

That feudalism died thanks to pikes is banal historicist reductionism that libertarians are fond of

Russia and Japan had feudalism up to the 19th century

But right now, every possibility of problem-solving, in a global sense, is removed. People cannot focus on intellectual and existential goals, I mean people who should exist in the first place, because crowd control is a too overwhelming task

Earth is overpopulated, and economical elites are simply cynical know-nothings

Uh yeah Russia took longer to conscript serfs and industrialize

near as I can tell they only would have had makeshift weapons

Tokugowa banned guns and the peasants didn't know how to make them

Russia and Japan had feudalism because they didn't industrialize until they were basically forced to by the Communists/Admiral Perry

After that they dumped the old strictures and caught up pretty rapidly

Also medieval European feudalism lasted longer than pikes since armed knights need a combination of them and projectile weapons to take down

The Cruz being that Lord's who armed their peasant populations often beat Lord's who didn't

Crux

cruz missile incoming

Aimed directly for close relatives

Political beliefs don't invalidate a person's thinking. It's like saying Spengler was wrong because he was a conservative

More specifically regarding his profound understanding of historical cycles

there is a lot of myth there

Russia did not posses large industrial base, but it had industry, which after all was necessary for war effort. Russia had a somewhat thin railroad network, unlike Austria, Germany and France

Japan was opposed to *trade*

Americans came to force Japan to import foreign goods, much like with Chinese