The Politics of Serfdom

I will call it the politics of serfdom when people advocate the interests of old-school paternal capitalists... regardless of their own sense & benefit. Hence their is a predictable disingenuous aspect to their political theatricality.

A serf was an agrarian slave who worked the land and was entitled to family-rights & the promise of military defense in exchange for his emotional fealty to the local oligarch. After centuries of practice this mode of living becomes a deeply entrained habit which provokes strong political responses even when its reality has passed away.

Today, I call the true conservatives green-necks -- because their organic localism, community spirit & instinct for old-fashioned farming is situated on the planetary stage.

Redneckery is the politics of serfs. It is a regressive trend, precipitated by emotional pathology & religious indoctrination, which occupies the social position of the Right Wing only as a mockery or a symptom of danger.

A redneck is a Medievalist in his or her political emotions. Such people are not only ill-educated, in general, but actively spurn "the data" & also their own well-being whenever these things appear to threaten the symbolic reign of old-school military-corporatists (barons). It is not suprising when the regressive Right Wing ignores their own contradictions, changes positions fluidly, sacrifices their loud morality for victory, and advocates laws which empower a handful of military & commercial oligarchs -- often in direct contradiction to the safety and prosperity of the nation.

This is called "defending their rights," or "standing up for God's law," or "not being fooled by the contemporary propaganda." The ideological position of the Medieval conservative is that the Baron's interests ARE his own interests. Thus he constantly surrenders what is most dear to him while threatening to do "whatever is necessary" to defend his personal interests.

The serf mistakes the paternal Baron for himself -- or herself.

Today -- as in the American Republican party of the last few years -- the Serf Politics are weak. They actively attempt to eject their most broad-minded members & emotional-sexually relaxed members... all the while they are hemorrhaging supporter to the emerging Planetary Conservatives.