Anti-degeneracy movements tended to fail because outside force crushed them or because people with no actual experience of what diversity was like said ‘what’s so wrong about this thing hurr’
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
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
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.
