Edward the IV, bunions, and the new world order

Tom McAn I

Medieval fashion trend brought a plague of bunions to England

Researchers in England have been examining old skeletons and discovered an interesting phenomenon: while just 6% of individuals buried between the 11th and 13th centuries had evidence of bunions, 27% of those from the 14th and 15th centuries were hobbled by the affliction.

That's likely because shoe style changed significantly during the 14th century, when it shifted from a functional rounded toe box to a lengthy pointed tip.

That’s all very nice to learn, but here’s what struck me:

Across late medieval society, the pointiness of shoes became so extreme that in 1463 King Edward IV (his chosen royal motto, “method and order”) passed a law limiting toe-point length to less than 2 inches within London.

We are no longer ruled by a single king who by simple diktat can decide what shoes his subjects can wear, but we’ve certainly returned to a system of rule and power descending from the top, rather than up, from free citizens. The Great Experiment has been destroyed, deliberately.

Citizens locked in their homes, jobs ruined, forbidding the heating or cooling of houses except by non-existent “green” energy, ridiculous edicts like banning plastic bags, straws, and styrofoam coffee cups, it’s all one theme: what the people don’t want to do they’ll be forced to do, by governments and the permanent subclass of bureaucrats and regulators.

What’s the goal here? The creation of a state of deprivation, where limited resources will be distributed by fiat to favored individuals and classes and denied the resistors and enemies of the state.

Or that’s where I see all this going.