Re: Search for Genez Defining DAFN Behavior...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Tiny Human Ferret wrote:
>
> > R. Steve Walz wrote:
> >
> > > Look, I loved Latin and studied it for 5 years, but Rome was the
> > > ultimate feudalism, with as many as 2/3rds slaves as its residents.
> > > Steve
> >
> > The origins of Feudalism as we had it in the Dark Ages was when the
> > Romans -- mostly in the Empire in the East, originally -- declared that
> > even free citizens must enter the trades and occupations of their
> > fathers, couldn't travel farther from their tax-collector than a certain
> > distance, etc. In effect, the free citizens became slaves in all but
> > name. At the height of the Republic slavery was comparatively rare, and
> > as the form of government was exchanged to that of a monarchy and the
> > empire expanded, so did slavery, after all one of the main economic
> > factors in the Empire was the constant stream of slaves returned to the
> > capital from the newly conquered provinces.
> >
> > The argument is easily made that one of the reasons that there was so
> > little advance in development of mechanism was that it was far cheaper
> > to expend slaves than to develop machines. Once the empire was in its
> > final collapse and the plagues swept through, there weren't even enough
> > people to keep any of the survivors in bondage, and with such
> > desperation for manpower combining with such a superfluity of metals
> > just lying about, development of mechanism wasn't just economically
> > viable, but essential to make up for the lack of labor. And with so many
> > minds free to think towards solving their own problems, rather than
> > being crushed under some assigned drudgery, of course the Renaissance
> > followed..
>
>
> Recognize that you are talking *White_People* here.  A few thouzand 
> milez to the South, no effortz whatzoever were made to advance 
> what pazzed for civilization among the DAFNbongo SpearChuckerz...
> to the

Heh, looks like someone had one of "da bruvvers" sneak up behind him 
with a baseball bat while he was posting tripe from the library.



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The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may
often assume the appearance, and produce the effects,
of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy.
                  --Gibbons, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire