Skip to main content
news

Re: Queen mother (of englan...

AC
Google Google
SubjectRe: Queen mother (of england) has died
FromAC
Date2002-04-02 21:46 (2002-04-02 21:46)
Message-ID<3caa09a1.71711285@news2.randori.com>
Client
Newsgroupsalt.fan.tolkien
FollowsDavid Flood
FollowupsDavid Flood (40m)
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 19:45:43 +0100, "David Flood" <NOSPAMmaoltuile@utvinternet.ie>wrote:

David Flood
"AC" <spam@nospam.com>wrote in message news:3caa01b9.69686383@news2.randori.com...

AC
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 19:13:07 +0100, "David Flood" <NOSPAMmaoltuile@utvinternet.ie>wrote:

David Flood
The first priority of royalty, *always*, is to preserve their own institution, no matter the cost. I could give you a *long* list of examples, even from WWII.

AC
That is the goal of any form of government; monarchy, democracy, autocracy, theocracy, etc. Don't you think it a little strange to single out one form for such an accusation, when it applies to all forms? I can hardly fault the Queen for wanting to hang on to her job any more than I can fault Blair and Labour for wanting to hold on to theirs.

David Flood
They'll preserve themselves at all costs, not out of some notion of 'public duty', but out of the insane delusions (about the supposed importance of their own 'noble' blood and 'destiny') that blight Epstein's wits.

I would imagine that not all monarchs viewed their position so cynically. Some might even possess, gasp, a sense of duty.

I honestly regard them as a parasite on modern society (just like 'State' religions) - and they ensure the continued existence of the inevitable rabble of lesser hereditary leeches.

I don't regard them as that. All I see is republics around the world essentially creating aristocracies to replace the ones they ousted. They may call them all sorts of names or pretend that they don't exist, but they are there never the less. Revolutions may create oust old aristocracies, but new ones come to fill their place.

People like kings, whatever they may call them. Until something fundemental changes in the human condition, that will remain true.

--- AaronC

Google
David Flood (40m)