Not being rude or anything but your entire comment is a series of strawmans and misinterpretations. My "armchair" point on quasi-feudal corporations is clearly not prescriptive but descriptive (really just speculative, and I provide reasons why).
I reread what you said and I can see where I misread you. I think you're right about the miscomprehensions of how the world works now - and in a sense how it is actually unchangeable due to technological advancements. There is no way we can go back to the mind of a 13th century serf or noble. The only thing we can hope to grasp from them is insight from their era, and perhaps learn from that for a possible future of decentralization and stagnation. Not a future in terms of an ideal, but what is likely and perhaps how we can better prepare that likely future in a magnanimous way.
I was just worried about perceiving what I laid out as prescriptive. I was only trying to lay out what looks obvious, and characteristics of what the future may look like. I do not think the DR can save itself from misperceiving the way the world works because they are without many ingredients that make for proper prescription - religious higher principles, recommendations for how to live one's life that aren't catchy soundbites, etc. I see where you're coming from, and I agree fully.
The way things are going, I think distributism will find itself arising in decentralized manners all throughout Catholic and Non-Catholic Christendom. Not in a sweeping national or multi-national form. It won't come in the form of a set of edicts by a state, but in the praxis of Christians. It's likely the fruits of this will take a long time to sprout. Long after this comment section will exist.
Not being rude or anything but your entire comment is a series of strawmans and misinterpretations. My "armchair" point on quasi-feudal corporations is clearly not prescriptive but descriptive (really just speculative, and I provide reasons why).
Learn to blow off steam in healthier ways.
I reread what you said and I can see where I misread you. I think you're right about the miscomprehensions of how the world works now - and in a sense how it is actually unchangeable due to technological advancements. There is no way we can go back to the mind of a 13th century serf or noble. The only thing we can hope to grasp from them is insight from their era, and perhaps learn from that for a possible future of decentralization and stagnation. Not a future in terms of an ideal, but what is likely and perhaps how we can better prepare that likely future in a magnanimous way.
I was just worried about perceiving what I laid out as prescriptive. I was only trying to lay out what looks obvious, and characteristics of what the future may look like. I do not think the DR can save itself from misperceiving the way the world works because they are without many ingredients that make for proper prescription - religious higher principles, recommendations for how to live one's life that aren't catchy soundbites, etc. I see where you're coming from, and I agree fully.
The way things are going, I think distributism will find itself arising in decentralized manners all throughout Catholic and Non-Catholic Christendom. Not in a sweeping national or multi-national form. It won't come in the form of a set of edicts by a state, but in the praxis of Christians. It's likely the fruits of this will take a long time to sprout. Long after this comment section will exist.