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he hated the faceless machine of government oppressing people, but was absolutely fine with being personally oppressed by the local lord whose name and face he knew well.
incoherent nonsense.
hegelian master-slave dialectic but it's a pleasant conversation over afternoon tea
no no, you dont have tea with the lord. you take off your hat and bow when he passes through the village.
You turn over most of your grain to him and your family starves because there was less rainfall than usual this year.
or too much rainfall. the great famine of the early 1300's was caused by a few years of nearly incessant rainfall. nothing could dry out properly and so the wheat crops failed and everything else turned to rot.