The Feudal America Imagined

feu·dal·ism / ˈfyo͞odlˌizəm/ noun, historical

The dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord’s land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.

Where does one begin when it all seems nonsensical filled with vapid reality TV stars and their apprenticed entourage squatting in America’s Rose Garden and Oval Office, where women’s rights and health are in retrograde like an unknown planet and dictators and thugs have the golden ticket to access the free world?

To live in this world of America in 2017 is to begin to believe that the power of those who have it is insurmountable, unattainable and that the rest of us are mere pawns in a bad game of chess run by morons — That to get ahead is a lost ideal leaving the “people” angry and encamped onto bitter opposite hills. The “gap” is too deep, too swampy, and poorly tilled. There is an opportunity for both sides to #resist and revolt. Yet, for the silent majority, it is easier to hide in your bubbles of sameness and write furiously in an echo chamber than venture out and be beaten by hurricane winds, flood level rains, crazy Nazi torchbearers…