Fucking guillotines already
Isn’t that more of a renaissance thing
Well another medieval thing we’re bringing back is not learning history
The US already has plenty of that
The last time France used it was in 1977, so while it might have started a while back they only stopped using it less than 50 years ago.
Trebuchets as a valid defense option
Trebuchets aren’t really a tool for defence. They have tremendous range and aren’t exactly speedy to load, aim, and launch.
Unless you meant defence in the same way that a country’s military operations are known as “defence forces” regardless of intent, in which case carry on.
Fucking castles, duh
Doug Rushkoff had a talk where he called out local currency as a thing he’d like to bring back from the medieval.
Exclusive to the community, and only valid for a short period of time, so you can’t hoard it or siphon the wealth to another community.
Why would someone prefer that over money that can hold value over time? When I die I don’t want my wife to have to jump through hoops.
Added some links to my original comment.
It’s not instead of central currency, but in addition to it.
The advantage is that businesses can transact with less conventional liquidity so they don’t have to rely on bank loans. This allows them to charge less to customers who use the local currency.
In the long term, this makes money [in general – both kinds] move slightly faster within the local market, which makes the money [both kinds] more valuable [within the community]. And since the money [again, both kinds] is staying in the local market, the community’s wealth is less likely to be drained by external speculators.
Doesn’t that already exist in parts of the US? I know the UK and Germany have it.
Good luck having global trade with that.
I think Rushkoff’s notion was that new local currencies would be in addition to central currency. It just allows businesses to give a discount to transactions that will keep the wealth inside the community.
It’s a neat idea, I just don’t know how you would protect it from financial services turning it into yet another abstract tradable asset that undermines the original purpose.
Winter
The stockade is something we desperately need. Some people need to learn how other people see them. Driving 50mph in a living area, stockade. Making a lot of noise at 6 in the morning, believe it or not, stockade. Being a racist cunt, straight to the stockade.
Let’s bring back paddlin’ while we’re at it
That’s a paddlin’.
This was one of the really interesting plot elements in World War Z, where towards the end of the war where they couldn’t really afford to be wasting resources on prisons, they brought back corporal and public punishment. They’d put people in stockades to let the entire community know they were caught doing something like stealing their neighbor’s firewood, or publicly lashing executives who were war-profiteering, and only imprisoning the absolute worst offenders who were incapable of integrating back into society.
For a silly zombie novel, it honestly has a phenomenal amount of prettt interesting social commentary, and is absolutely worth a listen to the unabridged audiobook.
… And masochists? Please be specific.
Comfy bed.
Our leaders fighting in the wars they start.
You wanted it… go fucking get it cowards.
they should also sport appropriate codpieces to match their raging egos
Hell yeah! Modern leaders are fucking cowards. Don’t start a war if you’re not going to fight in it yourself!
Imagine a king fighting his own battle, wouldn’t that be a sight…
The commons
Dueling. I say we use it as an option to reply to a civil lawsuit. Able bodied adults only, no proxies, and if you refuse then you have to do a trial and they can weigh your refusal as evidence against you.
Swords only, no guns.
A good melee never hurt anyone.
The last formal duel in the western hemisphere, occured in 1968. Pretty sure some lemming were already alive at this time, and most of us had parents alive at this time. It was between two french politicians after a heated argument at the parliament.
So it could come back quite quickly.
Omg I found how to get rid of lepen! BRB saving my country
Benefit is that dueling was primarily done by rich white guys over issues of ego, so our tech CEOs would fit in just nicely whilst having the join benefit of removing half of them from the gene pool
I know people who have swordsmanship experience that would to totally sue Musky over privacy violations and choose trial by combat.
I demand trial by combat!
Can you still name a champion?
It could be a Facebook profile entry!
Guillotines obviously.
guillotines are renaissance era.
Does it matter if they are meant specifically for the ruling class?
See, that kind of back talk puts you first in line for the period-inaccurate execution.
Coinciding (by happenstance no doubt) with the fall of monarchies.
Giant shirtless executioners then, I guess.
I’ll take the entrails of a priest.
Horses as transportation.
I could be down for small beer being the main thing we drink.
i want to see straight guys duel to get straight women.
i want to see gay guys duel to get gay guys
that won’t happen; straight women and gay men are very different animals
Random pedestals with swords driven into them lol
Maybe a system where strange women lying in ponds distributing swords might actually be better
Can’t hurt at this point.
Sounds like a rather farcical aquatic ceremony
You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
Can we get guilds back?
Sobre people see guilds as a form of worker union providing job protection but they are also oligopolies for business owners, resulting in higher price for goods and less employment opportunities overall due to the “you got to be a member so you can do business” aspect of it
Insular industry groups with a monopoly on a certain craft or ability to perform a service? Big Tech is already fulfilling that role
