"There is a toxic mimicry of love, which is a form of Stockholm Syndrome, and this is the ‘love’ one feels for one’s superiors, such as for a royal, or for an abuser. It’s not really love, as we all know, but a subservience that begs the master not to strike us any more. This love is in fact the opposite of what it appears to be: It is fear!
Yes! The general population does, in fact, FEAR any possibility of emancipation from the ridiculous monarchy or from the very need to be governed, because they do not know what they’d do without this obedience."
A popular opinion. Of course the country is all in a tizz about THE WEDDING, everyone's going fucking mad for it, mad to love, mad to live, mad to lie in the road for hours in the cold just to get a glimpse of the wedding car tomorrow morning. Why? Are we all disillusioned government guinea pigs scuttling around putting false expectations on an old-fashioned, elite, hateful/hated monarchy? In buying the WILL LOVES KATE merchandise (which is paying for the wedding by the way, not the taxpayer, but the mug who buys the mug), have I proved all those teacher's who said I'd never amount to anything right? Am I proving myself to be an ignorant, thick, wannabe who is so sad and desperate that I'll spend my whole life aspiring to be a princess? Am I turning into Carrie Bradshaw with all these annoyingly obvious yet rhetoric questions?
TRUTH IS, I fucking loooooooove the Royal family from a patriotic point of view. I've never known or cared about the fundamental benefits of having a monarchy, (loving them them in a they're so kitsch and English and cute way) until noticing that the wedding seems to have injected some ghastly hatred into the country. Everyone's blogging tweeting statusing about it, and it feels like most people are bent on sticking their stamps on upside down (a mark of treason) and making me feel like a silly uneducated ROYAL GROUPIE. So I've looked into it. And these are my findings on the benefit of having our monarchy.
The Queen is an impartial symbolic Head of State above politics, commercial and factional interests. She really is. The government could flit forever from left to right but she's impartial and that's really important. We need that! In some countries Head of State and Head of Government are combined, which brings a lot of difficulty. And she doesn't have to change every few years in DIVISIVE elections.
She's a focus for national unity. The split is felt between believers and non, but ultimately she's the mascot that gets us all up in them bleachers! (People that talk in metaphors oughta shampoo my crotch. Sorry.)
Nations lacking stability and a civil society must be v. jealous of our monarchy. Through monarchy governance, issues and corruption can be dealt with easily and effectively. Monarchy also provides an attractive solution for nations looking for a more representative form of national governance because they represent long-term stability. Think of all the systems in all the world where you can't cross a junction without slipping a policeman a crisp 20$ or you go to jail. Plenty. For all the issues we have in this here country, we don't have issues that ingrained into our lives. That may be irrelevant to why a monarch is good, but she's done away with corruption in this country. As an article I was just reading says, simply, 'The monarch cannot engage in any embezzlement because everything already belongs to her or him.' Ha.
A Head of State whom we share with 16 other independent countries. This is great for foreign relations baby! It gives us links we never knew we had an that is v. valuable.
People are always arguing against them on the grounds that they're too-rich, too-elitist and too-fucking-royal to be true representatives of the people. They called Diana "The People's Princess", but what about Kate? Her family may be shockingly upper-upper-middle class, but just two generations ago they weren't AT ALL, ON ANY LEVEL! You can say what you want about social climbers, Catherine is the real people's princess.
If you still aren't convinced, just don't watch the wedding. It's easily avoidable - if you hate the monarchy you probably hate the man so you probably hate supermarkets so you don't have to be faced with the merchandise and you probably hate the media so you don't have to be faced with their coverage. A taxi man was going on at me the other day about his disapproval of the royals, saying 'It's not that I don't like them, I just don't see how I benefit from them' and I just thought well do YOU have to benefit? So many others do! So many! They're money making gods! I don't benefit from EMA but doesn't mean I disapproved of it. Fuck's sake.
Could I be more excited? Probs not.
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