Medieval Man
"Medieval man (like every deeply religious man) was eschatologically static. To him time was a relative conception because his center--God--stood at the same distance to the year 1300 B.C. as to the year A.D. 1300."
The medieval man appeals to me, especially since I've learned that, contrary to popular perception, he was not oppressed . . . far from it. The medieval man had more freedom than we do because the arms of government didn't stretch like they do today. Granted, there were occasional atrocities committed by the ruling class against the lower ones, but the daughter of a poor man back then was far less likely to get raped by a king's son than the daughter of a poor man is likely to get raped in her own neighborhood today. We live today in a culture of violence, and the modern State oversees that violence . . . and, in my opinion, perpetuates it through acts of aggressive taxation and militarism.
