[version_five]

I tried thinking through the upstream assertion, and I can't say I believe it.

But I am curious about how the accountability structure of a feudal system rolling up to a monarch compares to modern democracy. To some extent isn't each level still accountable to the levels below it - a peasant uprising will be the downfall of a noble, and an aristocrat uprising will be the downfall of a king. It's not immediately clear either that this would be worse than whatever system we live under, which in most places has no accountability and where democracy (voting) is mostly a theatrical exercise that changes nothing.

[allemagne]

It's immediately clear to me that I'd rather not have to storm the bastille every time the Baron's nephew embezzles money from the city government.

My neighbors and I just want someone competent in charge of local zoning policy. I'll take my theatrical vote over someone explicitly above the law theatrically pretending to give a shit.