No, I said what *I* think modernity's story is. Speaking for myself and not trying to put any words in your mouth at all. Chivalry was a code of honorable behavior created by christian military leaders to stop their soldiers from misbehaving on campaigns (such as mistreating peasant women) because that's part of what happens when you take soldiers into the field. The old chivalry manuals, from before it got perverted into the modem romantic thing by Elanore of Aquitain and her Troubodours writing the King Aurther soap operas, were very solid and based. I agree with your general point on nostalgia, I just disagree with that particular example. I think that one goes the other way around. The middle ages get a bad rap. Sorry, man. I'm picking a nit and being pretty autistic here and I acknowledge that. I have taken an interest in this bit of history and I've been really surprised by what I found. Very decentralized and free. Hard living, but just because of nature mostly. One of the best times on human stuff. Very decentralized too. Modernity just teaches us to think it was oppressed to deflect from the fact that modernity is actually way more oppresive on a human level.