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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 6130350" data-attributes="member: 50895">Oh, I definitely agree with your point of view.As an aside, I recently read an article about pre-1959 Tibet and how their society was 'extremely medieval' even in the 20th century.Not defending China in any way here, nor especially slamming the Dalai Lama, but Tibet before the China take-over was a nation governed by elite Buddhist monks and a very small population of land owners, with the majority of society being slaves, unpaid servants or serfs - numbering in the tens of thousands. Debt obtained by someone's grandfather (borrowing money from the temples at 20 - 50% interest rates) might still apply to the grandchildren. Extreme taxes were required for all travel, planting crops, purchasing herd animals, every birth, marriage, death, etc.The idea that the medieval period was over 500 +/- years ago, only applies to Europe. Much of that which one might consider corruptions of a medieval society, aren't necessarily older than I am. So much for modern thought...</blockquote>