Working on some late medieval ancestors in Norway… and wondering what they would have thought of what we do 4 centuries later when it comes to how we squander away whatever little influence we have on which way our nation goes.

Back then, there was the landed and the poor. If you came from the landed class you married in that class. Life was easier for them than for the poor, true. But they were always under the thumb of the king (in this case in Copenhagen). Also, the local Bishop held sway in many affairs of the local resident.

There were no elections, there was no freedom of speech. There was plenty of intrigue and plenty of scandals.

The poor were poor. They worked, they might have kids, they died. The local church recorded their names at baptism, and usually marriage and death. Otherwise, nothing is known of them.

It’s hard to think of Donald Trump, America, and our contemporary digital society as anything other than a fluke in the big picture of humanity. A massive accumulation of natural wealth and compiled work effort, all to be squandered by the most stupid of national leadership to yet be cranked out by the American experiment.