Royalty

A royal baby is due in the U.K.. A news correspondent from England said this morning on National Public Radio here in the U.S. that those in Great Britain who are opposed to the monarchy, "republicans" he called them, were keeping their heads down. This statement brings home that all this royal nonsense isn't really nonsense in the U.K.. It impacts human lives and progressive thought. What century is this?

 

Royalty is an assertion of a God-given right, bestowed at birth, to rule other human beings with absolute authority. The U.K.'s constitutional monarchy is checked under political law, but the monarchy is still a hereditary brand of unquestionable privilege in British society. This is absurd. It is especially absurd when one studies the depth of dysfunction and lunacy in the British royal line.

 

The royals of history are the godfathers (and godmothers) of mafias. The aristocrats who supported this social and political hierarchy were relations and henchmen, elevated for massacres and extortion from the less wealthy and less well armed. Kings and queens throughout history supported slavery, racism and violent religious bigotry.

 

It is arguable that monarchies impeded human evolution from the time of the demise of ancient Greek democracy in Western civilization. Royalty has set the model for hereditary superiority and transmission of hereditary privilege. This model is played out by aristocracies and the bourgeoisie around the world. Currently, an aristocracy of corporate wealth is subscribing to the royalist model with a new social hierarchy based on income. The media collude in this by their lust for celebrity gossip and dependence on corporate masters.

 

"Family values" can be code for arcane conservative stubbornness. Those who look to the past to justify injustice frequently rely on the social power and provenance of royal paradigms. The sanctification of The Founding Fathers in the U.S. is a form of this retrograde thinking. It is unrealistic and unscientific. It is not a humanist approach to human justice and social equality in a country which poses as a democracy in the 21st century.

 

I wish the pregnant Royal Princess and her due offspring no ill. After all, she is just another human being. I do hope her offspring or the offspring of her offspring will some day abolish all royal privilege as a gesture in support of a united humanity, progressing to a responsible and scientific stewardship of the planet and all life upon it.