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Now I've read the pic, and I must say, it's pretty stupid. The ancap makes arguments that are, for the most part, correct. They seem stupid because he is a poor, oppressed peasant, of course, and because he supports feudalism, which we all know was an oppressive system. Or so the narrative goes. In reality, the Middle Ages weren't that bad compared to everything that came earlier. How much of the population in Greece was enslaved, eighty percent? And not just in Sparta - which may or may not have slaughtered the slaves regularly to assert the power of the ruling class - but also in oh so civilized Athens. Did you know that Aristotle said that only the nobility can be virtuous, and that he compared slaves to animals? His opinion, while not shared unanimously, was far from marginalized.
Rome, meanwhile, had not just the gladiator games, it also regularly crucified people. I've heard estimates that it killed one million people in the Colosseum alone, sometimes by letting bulls rape them to death. The Romans also kept up the practice of slavery.
Europe during the Middle Ages had little, if any slavery. Human sacrifice was prohibited. Every person was seen as, well, a person. Serfs had rights and obligations just like their lord did. They were in a much weaker position, there was oppression, but compare their lot to that of a slave in a silver mine (or on a cross). The Middle Ages also weren't as culturally sterile as is commonly claimed. The Scholastics weren't just blunt apologists, many of them were very skilled philosophers and scientists. Their philosophy also laid the foundations for natural science and for individualism.
Yet, ancient Greece and Rome are romanticized, while the Middle Ages are seen as the "Dark Ages". I blame the propaganda of the Reformation and later the French Revolution, but that's a side issue. What I want to get at is, this picture works because it invokes the Dark Ages-meme. You see this peasant talk about how awesome feudalism is and you think that it's right in front of his eyes that it wasn't, so what truth could there possibly be in his wall of text?
That feudalism does not mirror capitalism, that's another thing. An apologetic for capitalism will of course sound whack when you apply it to feudalism. The two systems had some significant differences. I don't want to dwell on that, though, because I don't want to waste my time engaging an emotional appeal with the power of reason. Plus, my family is breathing down my neck because it's lunch time, and yet here I am, explaining basic fucking history to you. Thanks, prick.