What is the British Monarchy?
It’s this thing that dates back hundreds (thousands) of years to after the fall of the Roman Empire and then Byzantine Empire. Term brings to mind British Empire.
Kings and Queens, lording over land, subjugating their populations, extracting resources, dealing in capitalism at the end of a gun or sword, slavery. Slaves, serfs and poors doing all the sucky work while the elites live lavishly. (Military conquests at the expense of populations.)
Does this sound familiar at all?
That was very general. In particular, where I’m going with this to address the idea of what is meant by “a world order.”
For past decades, the US and allies have been the dominant force in the world. There are things less easy to describe, such as how the USD had become the dominant currency and the factors that make that work. Then there are things that are very easy to see. For example, this visual from UBIQUE. (The US has military deployed everywhere in the world, it’s one way sanctions are enforced.)
Further explanation is not needed. That’s an empire.
In recent years, and accelerated by COVID aftermath, advances of China and others like India have upended the economic hegemony of the US.
Right now, the US is arming Taiwan and making it a defacto member of NATO. China does not like that. The very same move was made with Ukraine becoming a non-NATO ally with arms, which is part of what provoked Putin to invade.
These are same kinds of power games that were played during the Hundred Years War and Crusades and all of the other lovely things that come to mind regarding dead Kings and Queens in Europe.
The disruption to energy supply has been felt in rising costs in the EU, elsewhere. Inflation propagandistically named “Putin Price Hike.”
Journalist Garland Nixon quoted Putin in this tweet.
Same reality peasants who started the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381 became aware of, these wars were being paid for by their suffering.
To get perspective for a minute, British Royalty is supposed to be a figurehead, like a leftover symbol of how things once were. An apropos reaction to the death of a 96 y/o woman is indifference.
Instead, there’s this intense govt. mandated and censorship-enforced reverence for Queen Elizabeth II. It’s botched feminism because logic prevents exempting from blame for govt. while at the same time crediting her for doing anything consequential.
Here is my personal take.
I want to say revering monarchy doesn’t make any sense, we shouldn’t do it because it’s ignorant of the direct historic memory of empires and conquests that continues today.
But it does make perfect sense. We’re capitalists. We celebrate competition, worship the winners and celebrities as gods and goddesses, ordained with ornaments of luxury.
We don’t ponder on Leninist views of imperialism or get all touchy-feely about what could have happened if those past and present monarchs cooperated with adversaries and behaved differently to try to make the world a better place.
This is fucking America (and ‘allies.’) Deal with it🔫💎
