When I watch movies about kings and their courts, I always wonder why the fuck anyone would want to be a member of that shit. Kissing crazy ass all day long, subject to the whims of imbeciles.🙄
@StillIRise1963 So the choice is between living in a castle and feasting and participating in revelry vs living in a hovel, working in a field all day, and eating gruel?
Yeah, I think I'd kiss some ass too.
@LouisIngenthron I'm living in the country. Do you.
@StillIRise1963 Living in the country wasn't the negative in my latter example.
The lack of freedom, back-breaking work hours, and inability to live freely for oneself is the plight that serfs faced. Those lords in the castles owned all the land by "divine right". They "graciously allowed" the serfs to work those fields, but in effect, they basically owned their laborers. Few were literate and the conditions were abysmal.
Who wouldn't kiss a little ass if it meant getting their kids out of such a system?
@LouisIngenthron My definition of freedom is clearly different from yours.
@StillIRise1963 Apparently so. Being forced to work in a field all day definitely feels like the less-free option to me.
@LouisIngenthron I clearly don't want to have this conversation with you. How should I say that?