Catholic Samurai
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While I'm for a new aristocracy to supplant the current false one, I don't believe it should be accompanied by a feudal system. There is no reason why we can't have a more centralized system and have nobility at the same time. After the abolition of the Shogunate, the Japanese Emperor reorganized the military class into a modernized army but allowed (most of) them to retain their ranks. The only thing that changed was that the titles were no longer hereditary, but it may have been different for the nobles.
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| Posted Apr 23, 2011, 5:00 pm |
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I'm not sure on the monatary situation since I am not that educated in that regard. Gold Standard maybe?
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While we should utilize gold as part of the new currency, it will not do us any good alone, simply because there just isn't enough of it to go around even if you were to evenly distribute it. The demand for it alone makes each ounce more expensive. If we did make gold and silver as our SOLE currency (Im assuming we're talking coinage here), when we go to pay for something, it would be like handing the cashier a $1000 bill for a $20 item, because the value of the metal is so high due to it's rarity and huge demand. We could use it, but we would need something else (perhaps not necessarily metal) that is more plentiful and not as valuable to accompany it.
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| Catholic Samurai said: |
While I'm for a new aristocracy to supplant the current false one, I don't believe it should be accompanied by a feudal system. There is no reason why we can't have a more centralized system and have nobility at the same time. After the abolition of the Shogunate, the Japanese Emperor reorganized the military class into a modernized army but allowed (most of) them to retain their ranks. The only thing that changed was that the titles were no longer hereditary, but it may have been different for the nobles. |
A nobility that doesn't actually have real power attached to their political control of their hereditary land is not a nobility at all. Monarchy requires agrarianism and cannot function without a real nobility; in its essence, it is entirely incompatible with the modern nation-state created since the Peace of Westphalia. How do you suppose any nobility could exist and actually be of service to its King if it did not actually possess real power (in which it is secure by a perpetual right that the King cannot damage without harming the legitimacy of his entire régime -- i.e., which the King cannot destroy except for very grave reasons) ?
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