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EDITORIAL

A new year is celebrated with excitement and enthusiasm in every culture, but this year’s eve is special for believers of superstition (hint: Mayan). The brilliant display of fire-works is met with fervent promises of a ‘better’ or more ‘resolute’ new year. But pray tell, why must we wait for the start of a new year to make these promises to ourselves?

Is it because there’s a special star that shoots across the sky every New Year’s eve? Is the cosmos really that well in-formed so as to keep up with man’s emotional and technical constipations? Highly unlike-ly…but of course, there’s noth-ing wrong in wanting to make a resolution to change oneself and the world for the better,

but why wait 365 days and 364 nights for it?

Self-progress is something we should practice every day of every year. It doesn’t have to be something drastic!

Starting with something as simple as an attempt to be-come more tolerant towards things we normally shrug at would be a good start. Through the flow of time, we instill these motivations, and before you know it you’re probably achieving some kind of reward for being “Most Tol-erant Person of The Year”! Ok fine, not as exaggerated, but hey: that feeling of being a bet-ter person today as compared to yesterday will be its own reward.

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Karachi Grammar School – Hammad Mansoor Pai Kinnaird College For Women – Maheer Anum Kinnaird College For Women – Maida Farhat Kinnaird College For Women – Noor Rehman Kinnaird College For Women – Shajeeha Ataullah Kinnaird College For Women – Hina Khurshid Lahore Grammar School Paragon – Zaiem Uddin Lahore Grammar School Paragon – Ayesha Raees Lahore School of Economics – Meesaq Qayyum Lahore Grammar School, 55 main – Natasha Sohail Chaudhary Lahore Grammar School, JT – Tayyab Shafiq Lahore College for Women University – Rabia Waqar Lahore University of Management Sciences – Yasar Qamar National University of Science and Technology – Usama Farooq NUST Karachi – Mohammad Sufyan Janjua Nishtar Medical College – Usman Ali Akbar Nixor College – Minahil Bilal Nixor College – Tooba Sardar NUST Business School – Eilaf Zehra NUST – Ahmed Khan NUST(PNEC), Karachi – Hassan Salman Shaikh PAC – Maryam Zafar Punjab University – Saman Sana Punjab College of Information Technology – Shaf Younus Rawalpindi Medical College – Hussain Sarwar St. Patrick's High School – Muhammad Ghufran Rafique University of Lahore – Usman Saif University of the Punjab, Gujranwala Campus – Zohaib Akhlaq

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Karachi Grammar School – Hammad Mansoor Pai Kinnaird College For Women – Maheer Anum Kinnaird College For Women – Maida Farhat Kinnaird College For Women – Noor Rehman Kinnaird College For Women – Shajeeha Ataullah Kinnaird College For Women – Hina Khurshid Lahore Grammar School Paragon – Zaiem Uddin Lahore Grammar School Paragon – Ayesha Raees Lahore School of Economics – Meesaq Qayyum Lahore Grammar School, 55 main – Natasha Sohail Chaudhary Lahore Grammar School, JT – Tayyab Shafiq Lahore College for Women University – Rabia Waqar Lahore University of Management Sciences – Yasar Qamar National University of Science and Technology – Usama Farooq NUST Karachi – Mohammad Sufyan Janjua Nishtar Medical College – Usman Ali Akbar Nixor College – Minahil Bilal Nixor College – Tooba Sardar NUST Business School – Eilaf Zehra NUST – Ahmed Khan NUST(PNEC), Karachi – Hassan Salman Shaikh PAC – Maryam Zafar Punjab University – Saman Sana Punjab College of Information Technology – Shaf Younus Rawalpindi Medical College – Hussain Sarwar St. Patrick's High School – Muhammad Ghufran Rafique University of Lahore – Usman Saif University of the Punjab, Gujranwala Campus – Zohaib Akhlaq

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PSYCHODE

We all know that IQ is a perfect meas-ure of someone’s intellectual and cog-nitive capabilities. Right? Wrong! Such and many other surprises will be high-lighted during the course of this essay. But first of all, we need to lay some ground rules. So, what is this IQ busi-ness anyway? It all begins in 1904 when psycholo-gists came up with the forerunner of modern intelligence tests. Such obso-lete tests used to measure just one as-pect of human intelligence, and there-fore, they were quickly replaced by the ones that were more holistic in their approach and content. For instance, vocabulary, verbal analogies, general information, arithmetic, puzzle and ‘picture mysteries’ formed the back-bone of such second generation tests.

As far as today’s tests are concerned, psychologists have bro-ken down this entire IQ structure into nine different subsec-tions of intelligences, so to speak. The list contains linguistic intelligence – the hallmark of writers and poets, spatial intelli-gence (ability to perceive visual-spatial relationships) – the at-tribute of sculptors and engineers, mathematical intelligence, musical intelligence, body kinesthetic intelligence which is an ability to use the body skillfully to express oneself or achieve goals; ability to handle objects skillfully – the quality of dancers and athletes, interpersonal intelligence – seen in therapists and salespersons, intrapersonal intelligence (sensitivity to one’s own inner states; recognition of personal strengths and weak-nesses and ability to use information about the self to behave adaptively) – which is not restricted by any domain in life, nat-uralist intelligence – exhibited by biologists, and lastly, spiritu-al/existential intelligence (sensitivity to issues related to the meaning of life, death, and other aspects of the human condi-tion) – shown by philosophers and theologians. This list is by no means perfect and the boundaries between different stated intelligences not strictly distinct. The main ra-tionale behind severing IQ in the first place has to do with the fact that each of the above mentioned intelligence is controlled by a specific area in the brain, for example, body kinesthetic intelligence depends on the degree of the development in cer-tain areas of the brain named as cerebellum and cerebral mo-tor strip. Similarly, spatial reasoning is directly controlled by something called Occipital Lobe and Right hemisphere of the brain. It is because of this that if a certain area of the brain is damaged, the intelligence controlled by it is devastated leaving other intelligences intact for the most part. Leslie Lemke is once such individual: he is blind, mentally retarded, and he could not talk until he was an adult. Yet he can hear a musical piece once and play it flawlessly on the piano or imitate songs in German or Italian perfectly, even though his own conversa-tional speech is still primitive!

Modern IQ tests are statistical, meaning that they are relative and not absolute. So if I were to somehow decrease the IQ of everyone in the world including myself while leaving yours untouched, your IQ score would increase without any effort on your part! Such is the power of relative statistics. In point of fact, the aver-age IQ is 100 points while almost seventy percent of the world’s population lies within the 85-115 points band. 140 points has been labeled as ‘gifted’ while 160 points takes the lead with the title, ‘genius’. Certain tests (other than specialized IQ tests) like SAT, GRE and the like are also used as a way of hinting at someone’s possible IQ score. It has been noted that these IQ scores generally vary quite significantly across an individual’s lifetime. For instance, a difference of 15 to 20 points can easily be seen in someone’s lifetime. Malnourishment has been identified as a way of decreasing IQ while higher education and encourage-ment over achievement in homes are common ways of achieving higher intelligence. Apart from that, an increase in IQ scores has also been recorded with the advancement in science and hence technology. It is believed that since people now have become more specialized in terms of jobs and skills, especially the ones that are tested in IQ tests, that they show increasing ‘smartness’ in their area of expertise, hence greater IQ scores. All of these en-vironmental factors when coupled with genetics go a long way in explaining someone’s IQ scores. One of the strongest criticisms that today’s tests are facing is that they do not test creativity. Since creativity has to do with coming up with novel solutions and innovative approaches for the prob-lems that do not have one right answer, i.e. real life problems, therefore, IQ tests cannot test such an aspect of human thinking as, there, almost every question has only one right answer. This severely limits the effectiveness of any IQ test and makes IQ test-ing a difficult task. Thinking about thinking itself has turned out to be an elephant in the room. It may seem ironical at first sight but the very existence of such an advanced thought that makes us think for ourselves justifies its own unfathomable sophistication.

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Sufi JC

Suppose I am a random person who stumbles upon the KG Offi-cial page. What do you think will be my first impression of your venture? If you’re a random person who is into researching things and not taking them on face value, you would get the impression that KG is a comic page which churns out original pieces of work. We put up original ideas, and if said random person bothers to read our “About Us” section page, they’ll find that we are a proper comic com-pany. Whenever we want to put up something, we do it. Our Facebook page is where we mostly put our one-shot comics. KG is Pakistan’s first com-ic company.

Describe your characters. Any-thing that we don’t know about J.C. and Sufi? A lot of people don’t know that these characters are actually our own alter egos; Ramish and mine’s. When we started off, we needed characters that we could relate to in real life, and the best way to come up characters that could follow our own style of thinking was…well, to start with our own selves!

We’ll say this from the perspective of our country. Con-sidering that making comics books was never some-thing that people deemed as ‘needing attention’, how did your comic help provide a pathway for people to consider making comics seriously?

Ramish and I have always been huge fans of DC Comics, and we’ve always had our characters, like Batman and Superman. We real-ized that we didn’t have any of our own characters, the kind which people could relate to.

If you ask some random person to recall a comic character, they would take the name of Commander Safeguard. A lot of people don’t realize that Commander Safeguard was a corporate gim-mick, a marketing gimmick to be more precise. Not that that’s a bad thing! Commander Safeguard played a serious role in educat-ing people about the benefits of a healthy living, but at the end of the day; the character represented a brand of soap. While growing up, we studied Urdu literature and came across character person-alities that were so motivating that we felt there was a need to graphically represent these characters. We had no real comic characters at the time, the closest being our cartoon shows of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles etc. This led us to cultivating a char-acter from Pakistan’s perspective. When we poked the market with a consolidated version of our character, we got a lot of posi-tive response from people. People realized that they could recog-nize and relate to Pakistani characters.

You said once that ‘Kachee Goliyaan’ represented an amalgama-tion of humor and behavior of today’s society. Is it really neces-sary to talk about your country in such a comical manner? Do you think it was important to make a comic book about something sa-tirical in Pakistan? We really thing it was the only way to portray such behavior. Isn’t it true that someone who can’t even laugh at his own misdoings cannot really achieve? Instead of staying stuck-up on situations and discussing them in the comforts of our drawing rooms or outside ‘Pan’ shops, shouldn’t we be actually doing something about it? The only medium that came to our mind was this comic element which had a deep underlying message to it. We wanted to be the conscience of society and to get people to contemplate. We’ve seen that humor is the best medium to get people to actually start contemplating over any situation. You can communicate a lot of things by using humor. No matter how many problems one might have, at the end of the day if you are ready to accept them and take it lightly and do something about them, then you’re on the right path. This was what got Kachee Goliyaan it’s popular whiplash.

Which comic of yours created maximum controversy ever? Was it fun? Oh yeah! Encountering controversy is par for the course as your fan following starts to grow. The most memorable one of these was when a friend of ours, a brilliant artist by the name of Mufat, developed a concept art of Quaid-e-Azam holding a machine gun in one hand and smoking a Cuban cigar with the oth-er. It was a passionate inspiration, interpreted from one of Daniel Craig’s Quantum of Solace posters. Now people like you and me, who can understand different perspective, were abso-lutely amazed by the concept! But there was some who commented on the artwork as be-ing offensive. There were posts like ‘How dare you show the Quaid with a gun in his hand?!’ and ‘How dare you interpret the Quaid as a ba-dass’ and whatnot. Ironically, these were the people who haven’t really read about the Quaid after some early stage of their lives. They wouldn’t bother themselves to read up about the Quaid and to develop their own unique interpretation of Pakistan’s founding father.

We got like over 200 comments on that art-work and a lot of emails asking us to take down the artwork, coupled with its fair share of threats. Interestingly enough, we had around 600 shares of that artwork as well.

We would just sit in front of the computer screen and laugh for like half an hour over this, and then spend the next one hour under the realization that people in Pakistan don’t really have much of a scope in perspectives. It was enough to put us into depression for a while…to think that interpretation of art was still far from realizable and that people were so deeply locked in thought that they could not look beyond the veil. After like an hour or two, the artist churned out another piece of concept artwork about the Quaid, along with a small article that questioned people’s inability to think. I would be lying if I said this wasn’t enough to get us to consider shutting down Kachee Goliyaan. But the sympathy from our fans was enough to get us back on our feet, and we’re really grateful to have such an awe-some fan following.

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Having such a large fan base must have some perks. Anything you’d like to share with us on this matter?

Perks? Hmmm…there are people who are our fans, and there are people who are a part of the corporate culture or intellectuals and artists. When the latter group began to appreciate our work, it made us realize that we were doing something substantial. We started getting posi-tive responses from very critically opinionated folks, people who had left their mark on corpo-rate culture and advertising etc. It feels good hav-ing such people appreciate your work, to be rec-ognized for one’s work and have this recognition show itself when you’re meeting others.

How far has KG influenced your life goals and set ambitions?

Quite a bit. In fact, not many people know that Kachee Goliyaan was actually a bit of a test run that we were conducting. Thing is, Pakistan has had its fair share of brilliant comic artists who have, unfortunately, forsaken this craft due to lack of interest from the public. There have been characters who, should they every see the light of day on paper, would have blown away the read-ers. Our ultimate goal is to perfect a character in-spired from real life, to portray said character in the role of a hero, in a series of different events and situations in the form of a comic book, all the while remaining faithful to our Pakistani herit-age. Also, people should be able to purchase the-se comic books, and in a society where reading books has become a luxury, you can understand that it’s quite the challenge. We intend on over-coming this challenge by publishing and distrib-uting our comic books, free of cost to readers.

You guys have been invit-ed to attend and show-case your comic book at the Comic Con in India. How big is that for you?

Six months ago, we were in-vited to Comic Con in Dubai. We were all set for it, but due to some glitches we couldn’t go. India Comic Con is a big thing because India has a HUGE comic book industry. Last year, more than fifty thousand people attended Comic Con over a span of three days. Imagine! You can’t get that kind of traffic for a comic book convention in Pa-kistan! And now they’re fore-casting over 150,000 people to attend the Comic Con in In-dia this year! Getting an invite to attend something so huge, all out of the blue, is really something for us.

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ble City Project get? Apart from the fact that you have literally changed the way people look at comics, do you think your movement created an impact for the better?

On the broader spectrum, we wanted to convey messages to the society. But on a micro level, we wanted to spread smiles. We were invited to draw our art by schools and universities, so it wasn’t like we were engaging in vandal-ism or anything. Our artwork has ‘layers’ to it, the kind you would find interesting if you looked for it. At the very least, you’ll be able to smile just by looking at it. We still get invi-tations from Islamabad to host the project.

Do you see KG to be THE ca-reer for Ramish and Nofal? Will it generate enough money for you? Will it keep you occupied enough? Will you want it to? We want to transform KG into a comic company that publishes and sells comics at book stores, and that people read these com-ics. If a new edition is released on the first of every month, we want to make it such that readers blind-ly walk into a book store to ask for the latest edition of KG. We want to become the ‘Marvel’ of Paki-stan. KG keeps us really occupied. We already earn a decent amount of pocket money for ourselves, but the challenge comes in con-stantly coming up with innovative means of keeping KG sustainable.

We want to challenge our limits and push past our current bound-aries, eventually KG will become

the main accreditation behind our entrepreneurship skills, along with other side line services we are providing such as content gen-eration for online social media. KG exercises its uniqueness in an al-ready niche market and this al-lows us to flex our muscles in the corporate market.

If there had to be something you think everyone should do right here, right now, what would it be? Read books. I cannot stress enough on how vital it is to read, not just KG comics and novels, but reading various kinds of material, from daily affairs to global envi-ronments. Just reading gibberish will not just mess you up as per-son, but it will diminish your indi-viduality. There’s literature for practically every culture in the world, and Pakistanis need to read up on such literature if they wish to broaden their perspec-tives. Trust me, it may not seem as convincing from one person, but the effects from good literature can move range from self-motivation to sparking entire rev-olutions and moving civilizations.

ENTERTAINMENT

It's definitely an extremely compet-itive race this year, with Ang Lee's "Life of Pi," Tom Hooper's "Les Mis-erables," Ben Affleck's "Argo," David O. Russell's "Silver Linings Play-book," Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" and Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" all seeming like good bets for nominations at this point. Quentin Tarantino's "Django Un-chained," Michael Haneke's "Amour," Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master," Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," Sam Mendes' "Skyfall" and Benh Zeitlin's "Beasts of the Southern Wild" are dark horses who I wouldn’t count out though.

My Five Zero Dark Thirty Les Miserables

Lincoln Life of Pi

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It’s going to be down between Hugh Jack-man for carrying ‘Les Miserables’ on his shoulders and Daniel Day-Lewis for the powerhouse ‘Lincoln’.

My Five: Daniel Day-Lewis, ‘Lincoln’ John Hawkes, ‘The Sessions’ Denzel Washington, ‘Flight’

Bradley Cooper, ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ Joaquin Phoenix, ‘The Master’

"Silver Linings Playbook" star Jennifer Law-rence will compete Jessica Chastain, who is getting raves for her work in the recently re-vealed "Zero Dark Thirty."

My Five: Mary Elisabeth Winstead, ‘Smashed’

Keira Knightley, ‘Anna Karenina’ Marion Cotillard, ‘Rust & Bone’

Jennifer Lawrence, ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ Jessica Chastain, ‘Zero Dark Thirty’

Anne Hathaway's work in Tom Hooper's "Les Miserables," had all the markings of a winner even be-fore it even screened, and now it's all but certain she'll win. She does have some competition though: Sal-ly Field in "Lincoln," Helen Hunt's work in "The Sessions" and Amy Adams' performance in "The Mas-ter" though it seems hard to believe any can win.

My Five: Anne Hathaway, ‘Les Miserables’

Sally Field, ‘Lincoln’ Helen Hunt, ‘The Sessions’ Amy Adams, ‘The Master’

Nicole Kidman, ‘The Paperboy’

We must include the nominations of Phillip Seymour Hoffman ("The Mas-ter"), Alan Arkin ("Argo"), Robert DeNiro ("Silver Linings Playbook") and Tommy Lee Jones ("Lincoln"), all of who seem like locks at this point (frankly nothing but Jones and Hoffman is for sure here). So that only leaves one slot, with Matthew McConaughey ("Magic Mike"), Javier Bardem ("Skyfall"), Leonardo Di-Caprio and Christoph Waltz ("Django Unchained") looking to fill it. It should be an interesting set of nominees.

My Five: Leonardo DiCaprio, ‘Django Unchained’

Alan Arkin, ‘Argo’ Robert Deniro, ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ Phillip Seymour Hoffman, ‘The Master’

Tommy Lee Jones, ‘Lincoln’

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^ DELEGATES OF GENERATION SCHOOL KARACHI CELEBRATING THEIR VICTORY ON STAGE

Mustafa, from AC, unanimously declared as the most adorable

delegate in CARMA ‘13

Delegates of BDC (Waris and Talha) acting as Karan Johar and ‘Bewa’ Nawazish Ali in the An-

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Participants filming the Shootout Press Conference in an intense verbal match between the gov-ernment and opposition repre-

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LUMS CARMA ‘13 “Journalism can never be silent… It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.” The Journalism Events of CARMA speak exactly that. Every competition was de-signed in a way so as to create immedi-ate impact for the delegates, and push them to render results within a matter of days, if not hours. Event after event developed and unfurled around the del-egates, exactly like in real life, when a news agency’s activities are not limited just to unearthing political agendas but at the same time, looking at other areas of information – entertainment, sports, fashion etc. This year’s CARMA aimed to create an air of extreme drama, action, thrill and mystery for all attendees – an extraordi-nary experience in short, every minute of it. We don’t doubt that this year’s CARMA will not be forgotten any time soon. Shootout enacted a fictitious scenario where a heart-throb rockstar Kaashi was hospitalized in the middle of a press conference due to radioactive in-fluence from a space trip. Not surpris-ingly, delegates immensely enjoyed film-ing the dance moves of the rockstar and the noisy protests of his family outside the SSE building in LUMS. Discover the Difference was another fa-vorite with delegates simulating an

MUN style conference in an attempt to identify biases and agendas of print and electronic media and try to BE the bias so as to understand the industry more clearly. Anchor It Talk-show was a highlight in which delegates were literally attacked by 4 actors whom they were supposed to interview to talk about the Pak-India rivalry in reality show Sur Kshetra. The socials included a Hoopla, which was a music, games, food and fun filled carnival, a excellent bonding ensuing be-tween the host team and the partici-pants but delegates from Lahore were seen as most energetic and interactive. The concert was a thrilling performance by Noori that literally rocked LUMS to it’s foundations. But what was most memorable was the dinner night in which the much awaited results were announced. Much to everyone’s pleas-ure and hardly anyone’s surprise, Gen-eration School took the trophy home, as one of their teams had won both Shootout and Print Pandemonium. It was indeed a night that belonged to the success of the 7 teams that had flown all the way from Karachi to make their in-credible mark on CARMA ‘13. Other winning teams included those from Beaconhouse Defence Campus, Aitchison, St. Patrick’s, City School, FC college and a couple of private teams. Titles were also given out to a few dele-gates/

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FEUDAL?

There was this boy and he was murdered in cold blood. People are killed every day in Pakistan, but this case was different. The people stood up, spoke out. The me-dia followed, and then the courts and finally the police made it to the party as well albeit a bit late. One of the accused was arrested while the other one is feared to have escaped. Both accused had one thing in common, that they belonged to ‘feudal’ elite families. A big reason for the outcry against the murderers of Shahzeb Khan was the resentment at the ‘feudal’ mindset which was very directly responsi-ble for the murder of this particular courageous boy. It begs asking, what is feudal-ism?

In land, we trust Feudalism is basically a structure of society built around land-holdings given on the basis of service and labour. Feudalism as we know it conceptually, flourished in Europe during the medieval ages when the Kings of Europe used to bestow feudal estates upon feu-dals in exchange for loyalty, service and providing men for the army when the King needed it. Similar systems were used around the world. The Zamindari system established in India was built along similar lines. Emperor Akber deviated from the norm when he introduced the ’mansabdari’ sys-tem which meant the feudal lords could no longer hold land as their private property with hereditary rights. Rather, they held it in trust from the Emperor and the land would revert back to the State at their death. With the arrival of the British, and the idea of private property gave birth to the modern version of feudalism we see in Pakistan today. The British Government bestowed land entitlements to its favoured people with hereditary rights, what we call ‘property’. The old cus-toms of share-cropping and the concept of the lord of the manor be-ing responsible for the welfare of the people of the area lost out to the growth of capitalist culture in agrarian India which allowed landowners to massively increase land-holdings through buying out smaller farmers. Is Pakistan feudal? Many argue that the rhetoric in Pakistan against feudalism is politi-cally motivated and has no realistic basis. Feudal-bashing they ar-gue, is a political gimmick when Pakistan is not in fact feudal. On the face of it, they are true. The average size of individual land holdings has continued to shrink since 1947 and no one individual today can compare to the ‘Zamindaars’ of old. The problem however is that Pakistan never had any effective land reforms. Thus most of these land holdings have shrunk because they have been divided among members of the same family rather than being shared with the landless. So, even though there are no consolidated estates, the same families continue to dominate through a network of clans and baradaris. This shows up in politics, government and policy. It also reveals itself in the mindset such people, who are used to dominat-ing the landless peasants living on their estates When India gained its independence, it ‘did away’ with feudalism. What this means is not that it forbade owning land, but rather that it forbade ‘absentee landlords’. Basically, you can’t own agricultural land unless you live on it and cultivate it yourself. Pakistan’s feudals are not just landowners, they’re also mill-owners, factory-owners, bureaucrats and politicians. The fact that average land-holding size is falling doesn’t mean anything. Feudalism might be dead but the feudals are more alive than ever before.

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