3.0 The Middle Ages: as a change of eras

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I have always held the mystery of the Vikings. Well, as a handful of bearded brutal digging bend over the whole province and the city ?! No, if you look at the details, it's simple. Single local Knights of the bale from the corner or, in extreme cases, killed Caudle, and while arriving collected susekam reinforcements - frolicking in the villages and monasteries. But they, the attackers, something happened nothing at all! At one Drakkar from 40 to 60 dug, well, even Drakkar heels together - and in fact took a city and province! With thousands and tens of thousands of people! Who dutifully waited until authorized to conduct combat operations came to, gather and come smack on necks. More often than not, by the way, turned out to smack. The Vikings were fixed or wherever, according to the command, and go win the meaning was not (like Brittany), or where internal squabbles prevented general management (Sicily).

And all this is one answer - a property of the system. Middle Ages - is primarily a system. Three classes, and you can not do the wrong business. Pray labor or voyuy. No other choice. No, of course, individuals could become knights of the peasants, knights - abbots and monks - husbandmen. But the whole system was absolutely stable and - most importantly here - its base, workers, rasshiryashas only expansively. 10 conventional farmers could feed one lord. Want more - need more farmers. As in the old toys strategies. Labor productivity was already maximum, raise it was impossible. Only increase the number of manufacturers. And come up with, it seemed, there was nothing impossible. Here it is, the land for thousands of years so plowed.

On the whole congregation was the social sphere, almost all questions through them. Well and science more as they do not contradict the social order and the trend. This is important, by the way. Priority social relations over science in general. We, as usual following the ideas of modern times, such provision shall be deemed brake, but that in reality a brake it was just the beginning of modern times. A large part of Srednevkovya just provide survival of the general population. And fast embeddable really useful for specific survival inventions, such as stirrups, windmill, irrigation systems and other things. A great discoveries of antiquity - oh, my God, Heron invented the steam engine, and Democritus atoms predicted! - Were primarily toys that did not even think to give way in life. This is the fundamental difference between the ancient science of medieval science.

Knights fighting also not sitting idle. And they have been in the system for maximum performance. And to the same challenges, such as the Vikings or the Hungarians, they meet all the rules - usually with some delay, but so is almost always a win. And foreign military companies, such as the Crusades, also showed the priority of military science in Europe. After all, if you think about it a bunch of knights two centuries kept very uncomfortable in the logistics against the bridgehead against the infinitely superior forces of the enemy. Yes, they have gone from there. As NATO forces from Afghanistan.

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It's all about the Middle Ages, yeah. New Middle Ages, in which we fly. The new system.

By analogy with the previous one, I would call the class like this: fighting, socializing and consuming. Yes, consuming, because the question of production is not worth it. That is the foundation of the ocean food chain - plankton. From the incident "gratuitous" sunlight and water makes all sorts of carbohydrates. But one can digest only planktonina light unit and a drop of water and issue unit sugars. Want more - Increases the number of planktonin. Since the Middle Ages and modern: from falling continuous stream irons and TV consumes issue on the mountain units of services and taxes. The cost of the TV there are infinitely low, besides it, from the point of view of the consumer, "gratuitous" - made somewhere in China, Vietnam or anywhere else. Practically, the sun. But the trouble of the modern economy that is already consuming almost close to the limit of performance. A little over a TV and an iron man-one perhaps, but not two, a three-fold increase. And that means: hello usual extensive way. The system worked, and will work as long as "in the service of society" (in some cases - by force and knees) science will not give something that can turn the base. The last time it was the factory, fertilizer, and the coup de grace - the steam engine. This is not a toy. The world turned upside down and the system is broke, unable to stand. What is remarkable - it was for the base, for workers. Significant and great discoveries for other classes, such as printing or gunpowder, the Middle Ages and took swallow unchanged. This means that we will have a revolution of consumption. And what it will be - it is impossible to predict how the French could not predict laborer 12th century factories - it contradicted everything he knew about the work. So are we.

By the way, why 3.0. Yes, because such a system has already been twice. Middle Ages in essence - a repeat of the kingdoms of the Ancient World: Egypt and the Crescent. With small differences (the church instead of bureaucracy, for example), but these differences are purely cosmetic. And then there was an ancient or modern times - the flourishing of the individual and the decline of the system. And if anyone thinks that we somehow it's all happening too quickly, in a matter of decades rather than centuries of "real" Middle Ages, and those were bustler compared to thousands of years of formation of the kingdoms of the ancient world. So, I think, the Middle Ages ... or better, System 4.0 will be created over the years, then go to the expense of months, days, hours and minutes;)