Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind

so that you may be able to prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12.2. This is resistance and reformation on the Fight Laugh Feast Network.

Toward the end of the Roman Emperium in the fifth century, the mass migration of Germanic tribes over the Rhine

into Gaul and across the Pyrenees put an unbearable strain upon the Imperial Treasury.

The administration of those outlying provinces simply outstripped the diminishing resources of Roman governance. Thus the Emperor

reluctantly entrusted the task of defending the borders, collecting the

taxes and keeping the peace to the

barbarian chieftains and warlords who now lived there, making them his

vassal allies.

In return for their faithful of obedience,

he granted them lands, titles, and authorities

in hereditary perpetuity, they thus became kings, dukes, barons, marces, and nobles.

This was the very simple beginning of what became the very complex feudal order,

which in time would dominate the affairs of men and movements throughout the medieval era.

Ultimately, everyone within the society would have some sort of a covering of accountability

and allegiance.

Rather than allowing the West to become a progressively atomized and fragmented community

feudalism aimed at a genuine covenantal unity with the various interrelated stations in life stacked like a

giant pyramid.

Thus in 476 the fierce Harulee military commander Odessa deposed the last Western Emperor

Romulus Augustus, though historians make much of that date, supposing it to mark the

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