Feudalism arises from JudeoChristanity’s prohibition of a “commoner” challenging a “noble” to single combat to the death – the ancient appeal of last resort in dispute processing going back 600 million years to the inception of masculine aggression’s Cambrian explosion. This is because, in so doing, it ensures a perpetual state of war preparedness: individual masculine aggression is abjured to the noble so that war mobilization may commence at a moment’s notice. Initially, this takes the form of clan warfare with clan chiefs acting as nobles: Feuds. Then as “civilization” develops, it increasingly becomes an organic relationship between nobles and commoners in which the commoners are entitled to their homesteads – with the Malthusian rents extracted in group rather than individual combat, ie: war.
A problem arises when you get intermediates between the sovereign and the commoners – who I’ve called “mesopredators” – who don’t have the ultimate responsibility for maintaining the war-making machine in good order. They begin to feed on the foundation of the machine at the expense of the Sovereign – the locus of masculine agency that supplants individual sovereignty of 600M years. That’s when you get a conflict between the barons of Henry VII’s era and the Sovereign and that’s when the Sovereign must become the Apex Predator eating the substance of the mere mesopredators. The problem, then, is how the Apex Predator deals with the base of the food chain. In natural systems, this is of no concern to the Apex Predator but in artificial selection regimes that aspire to the war-making readiness of the hive, it is what distinguishes an “Arthur” from a tyrant.
In militia.money, this is solved by a fiat money backed by “property rights” held by mesopredators aka barons. The mesopredators pay the rents from those “property rights” to “The Sovereign” but rather than going into the hands of one individual sovereign (and his “managerial class”), they go as “retainers” to the “commoners” who then give up any notion of one man one vote and, instead, vote with their retainer fees in the capitalist market.
This, of course, pisses off Mammon Worshipers including not just the mesopredators, but the preachers of just about every “church” (including media and academia) who, ultimately, serve not God but the mesopredators that donate or “patronize” them.
This is the critical failure of those who identify as “libertarians” with their ersatz “individual sovereignty” – as is most egregiously on display in the network effect monopolies that have become the instrument of tyranny.
With this background of the “feu” in mind, here’s the critical passage from Leyburn’s “The Scotch Irish: A Social History”:
