The Middle Ages Suck: The Domesday Book

     Remember Day One? We explored the stupidity of feudalism. Now we will explore the fuel of feudalism, The Domesday (Doomsday) Book. When William the First conquered England he conducted a survey of the land and census and wrote it all down. Under the thinking of the Normans this information benefited the military and the defense of King William. The information consisted of who owned land and what people's assets were. This powerful information afforded William a way to levy taxes on the English securing his control.

       The system of feudalism works on the power of making private information public. This information  is then vetted through the legal system where laws are made to control the populous. The information and the laws become intertwined and makes it easy for those in power to abuse the people, by using the guise of 'protection' from outside invaders or  'government programs' to better the revenue flow of the economy.