I sense a great in-character rant on this subject at some stage.
"Why don't we ask how the people of the Congo feel about King Leopold, the Russians feel about Tsar Nicholas, half of the Pacific Rim about the Emperor Hirohito, and this little country right here the Family Windsor next door.
A monarchy isn't just the monarch, and no matter how just and honourable the monarch may be the very system itself is the apex of evil. It is the admission that not only is a natural hierarchy where there are betters or lessers okay, but that it is an inevitable and even desireable state of affairs. There are some people naturally better than others - not everyone can be a fucking baron, or a knight - someone's got to be on the bottom for there to be a top. Somebody has to be the bottom brick in the wall.
Monarchy is also an admission that objective morality doesn't matter. Morality is now simply a function of your position in the hierarchy. Because moral people are always at the top, and immoral people at the bottom. The morality of actions is relative more to the person taking the action, than the actual action itself.
I like living in a Republic. I like the idea of having a President that - at the end of the day - is still a citizen of the state and a servant of the State rather than the incorporation of it. The president is a representative of the people to the world, the face of a nation and who we are now. A president is an acknowledgement of a changing world and a changing culture rather than a desire for stagnation. At the end of the day, the president stands in line with everyone else at the ATM. Anybody can be President. I also like the idea of the President getting the legal shitcan when he's a lunatic.
Just because you elected one shit president doesn't mean you should turn over the entire system to the ghost of one possibly decent Queen. "
I might need to rewrite that for eloquence. Or ineloquence.
There is one other fact the innocent young rabbit won't know. Monarchs have enemies - a lot of them. A monarch needs to live a lucky life - because those enemies will only need one lucky day.
"Why don't we ask how the people of the Congo feel about King Leopold, the Russians feel about Tsar Nicholas, half of the Pacific Rim about the Emperor Hirohito, and this little country right here the Family Windsor next door.
A monarchy isn't just the monarch, and no matter how just and honourable the monarch may be the very system itself is the apex of evil. It is the admission that not only is a natural hierarchy where there are betters or lessers okay, but that it is an inevitable and even desireable state of affairs. There are some people naturally better than others - not everyone can be a fucking baron, or a knight - someone's got to be on the bottom for there to be a top. Somebody has to be the bottom brick in the wall.
Monarchy is also an admission that objective morality doesn't matter. Morality is now simply a function of your position in the hierarchy. Because moral people are always at the top, and immoral people at the bottom. The morality of actions is relative more to the person taking the action, than the actual action itself.
I like living in a Republic. I like the idea of having a President that - at the end of the day - is still a citizen of the state and a servant of the State rather than the incorporation of it. The president is a representative of the people to the world, the face of a nation and who we are now. A president is an acknowledgement of a changing world and a changing culture rather than a desire for stagnation. At the end of the day, the president stands in line with everyone else at the ATM. Anybody can be President. I also like the idea of the President getting the legal shitcan when he's a lunatic.
Just because you elected one shit president doesn't mean you should turn over the entire system to the ghost of one possibly decent Queen. "
I might need to rewrite that for eloquence. Or ineloquence.
There is one other fact the innocent young rabbit won't know. Monarchs have enemies - a lot of them. A monarch needs to live a lucky life - because those enemies will only need one lucky day.
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.