BRITISH ROYALS?
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- lowimpakt0
It's worth remembering that the royals are only the face of the monarchy and the divisive and elitist class structure that exists to legitimise the monarchy.
From a purely symbolic point of view they serve to remind the working class and regular tax payers that they are chumps and idiots and they they will always be chumps and idiots because they fund the most elitist group in society and their lavish lifestyles. This funding willfully handed over to these elites legitimises the wider class divisions and effectively functions to prevent the emancipation of the regular working class.
I like the queen but hate what she represents.
- futuremongolian0
Yeah but countries without royalty have an even more divisive class structure - check the GINI index.
- 20020
Queen is a symbol where nation gathers to solidify its stance amongst one another.
When you see a nation with out a figure head, it deteriorates in to dismal self centric perspective of the government.
- Beeswax0
All you brits and canadians and australians and bunch of other isles on the oceans. You owe your welfare to the royal family. That family has done all the bad things for YOU for centuries so that you can call the rest of the world third world and complain about immigrants and stuff.
- lowimpakt0
@futuremongolian - good point, the Gini index is useful but it's also difficult to compare inequality on a global scale. e.g. there has been some studies by OECD suggesting that the UK has the worst social mobility in OECD countries e.g.
UK schools 'most socially segregated'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/educat…"OECD: UK has worse social mobility record than other developed countries"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/busine…but theres lots of contradicting statistics and my rant was more ideological than logical i.e. to me the idea of hereditary power and wealth is the antithesis of democracy. I also believe there are many practices, structures and cultural norms that reinforce these undemocratic systems - the monarchy being one of them. I'm influenced by Bordieu on seeing the world like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie…
I'm also an atheist and the queen of the UK is also the head of the church of england, a role which is given to the queen "by the grace of god". I think we need a seperation of church and state