Plato, the ancient Greek philosopher, believed that a society should be ruled by philosophers because he reckoned that they were higher minded and less likely to be corrupted than ‘ordinary citizens. Alas such a style of government he surmised would not work in practice for it would eventually and inevitably ‘decline into democracy and then tyranny.’

For a a political or social system to work well and fairly does it necessarily have to be a democracy? Winston Churchill opined that democracy was a flawed system but its main virtue was that it was better than all the others.

Feudalism was a system, undemocratic in the extreme with very little opportunity for ‘social mobility; within it every free person had their rights and responsibilities from the lowliest yeoman to the highest King.

For Feudalism to work successfully it had to acknowledge that there is a greater and higher Truth than ‘experience’. Call that Truth ‘God’ if you wish, but even God has his responsibilities as well as his rights.

If God created the Universe out of ‘nothing’ then said Universe exists/subsists in the mind of God. For the Universe and all that is in it to continue God has to hold it in his mind all the time, if he forgets the Universe it will cease to exist. That ‘remembering’ is God’s Responsibility.

If God created the Universe out of ‘something’ then the only ‘something he could have used was of himself. The Universe is part of him for there is no ‘thing’ existing beyond the boundaries of God.

It is therefore also God’s responsibility to maintain himself in a continual state optimum equilibrium and ‘health’, for if his health lapses then the universe that he has created diminishes and fades away, it declines into existentialism, atheism, entropy. Chaos.

It is the responsibility of the Universe to award God praise and glory, not because God needs it to survive but because the Universe needs God to remain in relationship with it to survive; without that the Universe stops existing.

God cannot stop loving the Universe but the Universe (the sentient part) (us) can choose not to accept or acknowledge God’s love and he cannot force it to love him (you cannot force or demand someone to love you, that is tyranny and abuse)

Feudalism in its ideal state replicates that hierarchy, that synergy, that symbiosis if you will. Democracy does not.

Can a case be made for, not a return to the Feudalism of old but for a new Feudalism?

Think about it.