Friendly reminder that the original function of a castle was as a base of operations to loot, rape, and kill your neighbors.
So…
They also serve as a passive invasion deterrent. If an enemy army enters your land you retreat to your castles. The enemy now faces a choice: do they invest each castle or pass them by. If they pass them the soldiers in the castle can ride out and harass your foragers. If you lay siege to the castle and a rival army shows up, the enemy is now between the hammer and the anvil.
Not saying you’re wrong, I just fuckin’ love the history of castles.
I remember reading World War Z, where the author creates this fictious situation where the British (🤮) survive by retreating to castles.
Wish I could find a video of his interview with :smurf-cursed: where he got mad and almost cried about how much he hates China
I was just thinking of the part in that book where the young Palestinian guy is about to join not-Hamas, but then zombies attack and the IDF saves him, causing him to reconsider what the book depicts as an angsty teenage rebellion and go to Isreal for safety, as if they wouldn’t start airdropping zombies on the west bank at the first opportunity.
Real reason being that castles became obsolete in the face of increasingly powerful weaponry.
Also the whole meaning behind the phrase “where will you hide?” is because there is NOWHERE they can hide in the event of revolution. If a bunch of rich people tried to bunker up in some redoubt somewhere it is at best self imprisonment. Let alone they could just be starved out assuming the revolutionaries couldn’t breach their defenses (which they inevitably would).
Somebody should tell the billionaires that’re planning to hide in New Zealand that underground bunkers still have air intake pipes to stop the underground residents from passing away of asphyxiation.
like i feel like a mansion compound, like bezos and gates would own, has comparable defense without having the main problem with castles like the wasted space also there is the classic problem of siege tech a big reason why we don’t do castles or big walls around our cities is because cannons wreck them, so imagine what some modern day explosives could do against one of these big targets
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