MentalPolyphonics
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
There aren’t a lot of vocal Monarchists anymore. It’s time to out myself.
I don’t need any weird “constitutional monarchy is the ultimate democracy” argument as some Conservatives are wont to use. I like, but don’t need, the argument that the monarch is the theoretical final arbiter and source of equitable law.
The Monarchy is an exceptionally powerful symbol to me as an unapologetic romantic, but I recognize that’s insufficient for people with lenses of a different tint. Probably the simplest argument in support of royalty is this:
I distrust uncut democracy. The rule of the majority-by-proxy is fundamentally corporate, fundamentally anti-minority, fundamentally mass culture, fundamentally short-term, and fundamentally set against the exceptional individual. In short: I find it fundamentally dishonest.
I know the fat middle of the curve is violently opposed to being ruled. They appreciate the idea that they are self-governing. However, since I don’t labour under that illusion, I would like my titular leader well-marked and well-respected.
Blank organizational façades terrify me. I find them nearly impossible to relate with and structurally dishonest in their machinations. Moreover, I’ve never bought the “50 million Elvis fans can’t be wrong” argument with respect to governance.
I need a human at the pinnacle, not a right-thinking citizens brigade beholden to the election playbook.
This rant brought to you by BC Ferries. Long live the Queen.
Don
I don’t get the connection to BC Ferries. Is there a connection to get?
Jack
@Don: Island-specific cultural reference.
Over here we grew up taking BC Ferries ships to the mainland or the gulf islands for family vacations. All of their boats used to have portraits of the Queen on them, and had for decades.
For some reason they keep removing those pictures, causing public protest (mostly from old people and nostalgia hounds like me), and then putting them back.
Right now they’re on a “let’s remove all the portraits” cycle, and I’m worried that no one really cares anymore and that they’re gone for good.
Don
Sometimes when post offices remove portraits, but if you order a (free) portrait from the government and bring it in to them, many post offices will put it up. I’ve also heard of people supplying portraits like that to schools, libraries, and municipal offices.
This appeals to me, but I’m too shy to try it.
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