VII. Thou shalt perform scrupulously thy feudal duties, if they be not contrary to the laws of God.
Feudalism is dead. Or so people say, but it has returned in a manner of speaking thanks in no part to the mega-corporations which operate no differently. Actually they operate more cruelly than any robber-baron ever did, and with communism and globalism in support of their nonsense (globalism & communism being at their core a more murderous neo-feudalistic ideology) things are dire.
Do we ‘serfs’ and ‘peasants’ owe the trash at the top feudal dues? No. We do not owe them the slightest service, nor should we consider doing so. Under no circumstance should we consider serving them as we owe none of them our loyalties. The old social contracts forged over the course of the 18th century through to the early 20th century have been broken completely and utterly by the wealthy in the past 70 years. This is the truth, they broke with us when they sought to enslave us, destroy our lives (especially during Covid) and when they turned against God and abjured his faith.
This is the simple truth. The corporations, the governments and the UN and all other such organisations have abjured all that keeps society bound together. They are not worthy of feudal service.
Now what is feudal service? The old ideal was that it was duty which you owed to those above you, who allowed you to live on their lands, plow the fields or to otherwise live in the castles and defend their lands. Feudalism was a rotten idea. It was, and it at no point resembled the ideals spread by the King Arthur stories as rightly pointed out by John Matthews.
With that said, does this mean we owe no loyalty to a kindly boss, or a paternalistic or matronly baker woman who might hire us, or a small-business owner who cares for us, or a supervisor who looks out for us and protects us from HR or something? Absolutely not, we owe these people absolute loyalty. It is to them that the new social contract is forged. Many of the finest people on earth are bosses and supervisors who try to help out those below them, seeking to emulate the behaviour of Scrooge at the end of a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
These generous feudal lords of the modern age are worth serving, and defending at every turn of the way. Myself, I have a strong bond with the man who got me in with Defiance Press, I feel myself to be his household guard and bound to him. I also hold a bond with those who once worked at Librarie du Centre still, and have always felt that if an employer is kind to me, I am bound to them. The reason for this is that the notion of feudal service, of loyalty to one’s employer and protector is ingrained in human genetics, it is bound up in our spirits as in our DNA.
If you are employed by someone you like, or you somehow like your job you feel obligated towards those above you. No matter where you are, or who you are with, you will feel this way and this is natural. Honour demands it, just as it demands that they treat you well and love you as their own. The small-business boss though is in terms bound by honour and duty to those who serve them.
The nature of the small business owner, is that he is taking up a similar position in society as a new earl, baron or count or duke during the more tumultuous periods of France, the Holy Roman Empire, England, Scotland, Scandinavia and Ireland. It means that they are a free agent of sorts, but this does not preclude them from the ideals of honour. It means they must honour, support and aid those beneath them, naturally the honourable boss will strive to help their employees and struggle mental anguish at having to let them go in hard times.
But loyalty means not holding this against them, quite the opposite it means forgiving them, and continuing to owe them loyalty and affection. They are more than a simple feudal lord after-all they are a friend.
If a boss though tries to take advantage or have you take advantage of another, in a way that is morally unscrupulous and that contradicts the morality passed down since ancient times, we in the ‘dreaming West’ are heir to, then we must not abide by their wishes. This could include them ordering rape, the cancellation of another, violence against another, betraying another and otherwise dishonourable behaviour.
If they request a man to turn against his own, he must abjure his employer as family must come first, just as friends must. One’s honour bounds him first to them, and secondary to work and the business world, as to choose business and material benefit before love and duty is wrong.
If you're going to be loyal, it's best to be loyal to someone or something which has treated you kindly in some way. People who do you wrong aren't worth that.
Speaking of entering a Neo-Medieval/Neo-Feudal world. There Youtube channel Pilgrims Pass has an excellent video talking about the failure of Nationalism & Globalism and how, what he calls, Neo-Medievalism is the world we are entering with private corporations and private families and private militaries growing in strength to rival the nation-state.