Proposal: 4 axis model for classifying regimes for analyzing / predicting them. Axis 1: Power holders - Single, Group, Mass Axis 2: Power openness - Hidden, Open Axis 3: Formality - Formal, Informal Axis 4: Ruling cohesion basis - Priest, Warrior, Merchant
Geographically dispersed elites come from all across the country and world to form bonds in early adulthood that are continually reinforced through a lifetime of contact via easy, cheap air travel.
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The old system was that a local lord would meet mostly with supplicants - his clients but now the bureaucracy deals with the supplicants and the patrons only meet with each other and see each other. Qualitative change.
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This is only different if you don't understand nonlinear impact (don't worry, not even Moldy does). The lord meeting a serf is about as impactful as seeing a chair - his opinions and ideas are formed in the very rare, but still present elite meetups (feasts, banquets etc.).
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