Another day, another disaster

To prove that yesterday's post about the 'quality' of Medieval history in modern news media wasn't an isolated incident, here's some more 'news.' WARNING! May cause extreme annoyance.

"Letter from Pakistan: Resisting Feudalism?
Pakistan's State of Emergency Can Be Seen as Struggle Between Modern and Feudal Forces"

"Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth"

"Turkish democracy was born out of the ashes of a once glorious empire, to the formation of several independent nations that included the Turkish Republic, to the transformation of her peoples from a medieval mindset to modernity by an enlightened leader, to several military coups, and into finally becoming the sole democratic nation in the Islamic World."

"Bartholomew said psychogenic episodes were common in more repressed medieval societies but have become rarer in the Western world as people now have more ways to release pent-up stress."

"But, the medieval and Victorian eras are long gone, and the age of innocence is buried with the dinosaurs. Thus, many questions come to mind."

From now on I'm going to try to use eras from history as negative descriptors.

For example: "Oh, the traffic was absolutely Tokugawa shogunate-like today."

or

"I think that America's treatment of detainees is Interwar period-like in it's restriction of human rights."

or

"The plight of women in developing nations reflects a Indus Valley Civilization mentality."

Which era do you think deserves more play in common parlance? If you have any favourites, please leave comments. Or, for the most virtuous among you, use random eras in history to describe things and watch the confused reactions of those around you.