Here is how deeply some people feel about the royal family:
Since today is the day of the wedding between the crown princess of Sweden and her beau, some members of the hoi polloi are dressing up in gala gowns, as though they are actually attending the wedding itself, and are drinking pink champagne while watching the wedding on T.V in their homes.
Yikes!
Some hardcore royalists have received permission from the police to salute at the exact time when the bride and groom while be exiting the church as a married couple. How they are planning to salute I'm not clear on. Perhaps a gun, a canon, who knows.
Jeez!
Having my literary roots firmly rooted in the absurdism genre, I can see the humour in it all. Before I wasn't able to, but suddenly now I can. This reminds me of the good old days when I was writing about a mad house, which I described in an earlier post. In some chapters, the inhabitants of the Funny Farm would be watching their neighbours from the kitchen window as the neighbours were having a barbecue. The people of the Funny Farm never had any food and couldn't go outside because they would be lynched. Therefore they lived vicariously by watching their neighbours eat barbecued meat, while they themselves would be chewing on dried meat.
Although this is a very sad situation, there is something in it which appeals to the absurdist in me. I suppose the same goes for people's reactions to the royal wedding. In a way, it's comical, almost endearing.
I'm not boring, I'm really not. I will and will always be against monarchy because of the premise upon which it is based. I have a strong sense of injustice, and a society where people are divided into social spheres and where some are regarded as finer merely because they were fortunate enough to be born into money, or because their ancestors accomplished some great feat once upon a time, is a warped one.
It's not about being boring or unromantic, or strange for that matter, it's about injustice.
3 comments:
people are born more privileged than others all the time...the royalty is not much different...i could as easily bemoan the fact that some other layman is richer and has a better life than me...and their ancestors did accomplish a great feat...usually such a feat that resulted in the creation and continuance of the nation...so i don't think it's terribly unreasonable to have their descendants benefit a bit more than other people from their legacy...anyway...i do see your point...but i guess i don't take it so personally and i'm just at traditionalist
Yeah but we don't have to worship them just because of that. Why should we honor a tradition that was absurd to begin with. Royalty is at the top of this hierarchy. A symbol of the class society. It's time to let go of it. There is nothing in this world that will make me accept the monarchy system, and in this day and age I'm astonished that some people swallow it hook, line and sinker.
And people who born privileged before of what their ancestors accomplished is something we can do little about. It's a fact that some people don't have to work for a living, and that's how it is. But that doesn't mean we have to pay tribute to a selected minority and treat them as though they're better than us. They can have their inherited money, heck I wouldn't say no to that either, but why put them on a pedestal? Where is the logic in that? Money and status isn't what makes a person great. I'll bet some of the best people in the world clean toilets for a living.
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