From the interview: > FH: It’s my contention that feudalism is a natural condition of human beings…not that it is the only condition or not that it is the righ

From the interview: > FH: It’s my contention that feudalism is a natural condition of human beings…not that it is the only condition or not that it is the right condition…that it is just a way we have of falling into organisations. I like to use the example of the Berlin Museum Beavers. You ever come across this? > WM: No. > FH: Well my…the numbers are going to be wrong but it’s on this order… Before World War II there were a number of families of beaver in the Berlin Museum. They were European beaver. They had been there, raised in captivity for something on the order of seventy beaver generations, in cages. World War II came along and a bomb freed some of them into the countryside. What did they do? They went out and they started building dams. > ALL: (Laughter) > WM: Wow! Wow! > FH: Now tribal organisation…feudalism is tribal organisation… > WM: Oh, yes. > FH: And that’s what I’m talking about. So, tribal organisation is a natural organisation of humankind. We tend to fall into it, given any chance at all, given the proper stresses, or given the proper lack of stresses.