The Chad's Chad, Feudalism, and Its Imminence

The Chinese, for example, always focused on an emergency level crisis of imminent annihilation. Feudalism was abolished in China in I believe the 280 after the consolidation of the first empire. The stability led to stagnation, because there is nothing harnessing all these ingenious innovations that come when more and more minds are working. In Europe, everybody was going to grab what they could get,. What they grabbed was the financial innovations tied to religious innovations that sanctified life in a godless world.