Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Make it stop! We're Americans!
There are things I care a LOT about (and write about them too much, probably). There are things that interest me. There are things I don't care about much. And then there is the British monarchy, which not only do I not care about at all, but I can't believe that any patriotic American actually would!
A quick recap: Our nation was founded on a rejection of the British monarchy. A total rejection, too-- we got rid of nearly every vestige of it, and then fought another war in 1812-15 against the British royals just for good measure. It's a thoroughly American thing to totally not care about the British monarchy.
And then there is this: These people are (for the most part) idiots. They are pretentious rich people who live off old money and land holdings and contribute almost nothing to their society other than providing tabloid fodder. They live stilted, performative existences and only very rarely do anything that is even remotely worthwhile or objectively notable.
Kate wore a dress! William remembered that his mother was Princess Diana! Kate wore a different dress! Charles rode a horse! Somebody is mad at someone else! Sooooooo what?
Some will say we treat the Kardashians and their ilk the same way-- which is true-- but the difference is that our nation was not founded on a rejection of the Kardashians. Well, not yet. But that matters.
I've been in England at times that the royal family was in tumult and the newspapers were all over it. That's fine-- it's their monarchy, after all. But, if we are going to build a wall to separate ourselves from foreigners, could we maybe just build it between us and them?
