Talk:Mutsunokami Yoshiyuki/@comment-31.33.217.53-20150218000348/@comment-31.33.217.53-20150401121813

Also, I should mention this... I have said feudal mentality has good aspects.

Every kind of political regime has good and bad aspects.

Among the worst aspects of feudal rule is that it's ultimate form is that of an army of Masochists ruled by a pure Sadists. Si maso dudes around, assume your true nature and forget Democracy and Republicanism... lol

The problem is you should not forget the bad aspects of a political regime just so you can have the good ones, at best you should strive to limit the damage the bad aspects can inflicts. And so, not only sadists can manage to become lords, and the same goes for Republic, you don't need to chose the average magot specializing in flattery and vote buying in a popularity contest, even though it is verry likely.

Among the best aspects of Feudal rule is that it consist of a relation of man to man. How can I explain that... you see, the best aspect of Democracy is that it is the only political regime where you can make friends with equality in mind. But think about it... while we often hear about rulers from more autocratic regimes making friends with people of lesser social standing than them, does anyone here, living in a Democracy, has a politician or a billionaire friend or something like that, while not being one himself ?

Verry, verry, verry few could boast of it.

But feudal rule most often appears in unsecure times, when you have to trust people to survive, and risk your life with them. You must bet on the good leader to survive, or sometimes, to find something more than surviving... an higher design.

Sengoku-jidai had this kind of society. Samurai had to find a good master to serve and bet on there lord, then do their best for the Clan (and so there families too) could survive.

For that, a Relationship of man to man was absolutely needed.

If the "Lone Wolf & Cub" manga, famed for his Bushidô stories, two samurai in charge of guarding lord Yagyû in jail release him at night, so he can make "Misogi" to pray for the prosperity of the Tokugawa House. Then, the Shôgun appears, and become mad at them... where is Yagyû, where is their prisoner ?! They can't say it. They made a promise from Bushi to another Bushi, a sacred vow. It is "Bushi no Nasake" who make them keep it, even though they must defy the Supreme Overlord, even if it's for his own good and it is not a bad thing.

This is one of the good aspects of Feudality, and it is definitely not a bad thing.

In Europe, China and America, Feudality has a bad reputation. But in Japan, the people was certainly not oppressed even though not everyone was equal and you couldn't make all the friends you want. Now, we live in Democracy... but are we not lonely anymore ? Are all the friends we have on Facebook better than the feudal Relationship of a man to a man or knight to a fellow knight ?

People like Sakamoto Ryôma heard about American Democracy by John Manjirô dude, they thought it was amazing that anyone could meet the American President among the Citizen, and then began to hate Feudality and traditional japanese values. Well, we know now that it was a fairy tale. And just like most revolutionary, they fell for an utopy, and maybe not the best one at that.

Thus, the argument of Democracy is friendship with equality while the argument of Fealty is Manly Friendship. It summarize it the best I think.