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
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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Lord meeting a serf has a far bigger impact than that It makes him feel good for having clients, it makes him feel pride and security at his lofty station (how can my clients survive without me?) - all things missing and pathological with present elites who see only other elites
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