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# It seems to me that we have an enlightened feudalism, multiplied by high technology
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/mne-kazhetsia-chto-u-nas-sushchestvuet-prosveshchennyi-feodalizm-pomnozhennyi-na-vysokie-tekhnologii/
- Published: 2026-03-10T19:20:31.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:26:40.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Interviews, Books, Observations, Society

> It seems to me that we have an enlightened feudalism, multiplied by high technology. Modern feudal lords travel not in carriages but in “six-hundred” Mercedes. And they keep their money not in chests but in Swiss banks. But mentally they are no different from the feudal lords of the sixteenth century

The writer Vladimir Sorokin.

*I found this quotation in an issue of the magazine “Nauka i zhizn” \[Science and Life\] twenty years old*. *The remark itself comes from an interview, in all likelihood older still*