The Royals are Reptilians and I'm an Alien-Human Hybrid

[TalkingDog]

It's times like this that it becomes abundantly clear that I am either a changeling or an alien-human hybrid. Somehow, against all the impulses of the herd I have been born into, I am completely disinterested in the social life of people who have status merely by dint of being the product of the chance meeting between a lucky sperm and egg.

Not only that, I have never been able to comprehend how regular people can be so engrossed in the personal lives of those whose existence is completely foreign to their own, in terms of power, wealth and privilege. Frankly, it wouldn't occur to a Royal to look your way if gazes were air and you were suffocating to death.

A couple of years back the Queen's solution to the deficit in the Palace heating budget was to raid the fund used to feed the poor. She can't put on another sweater like regular folks, she has to heat her Palace with the bodies of the starving. Her Ministers had to explain why this would be a bad idea.

I need you to think about this concept: Her Ministers had to explain why taking food away from poor people who would starve without it, was bad. In other words, the idea that it was morally or ethically questionable had never crossed her mind.

This is the group people around the world are obsessing over; waxing rhapsodic about? These people, who have never been particularly talented, intelligent, beautiful or industrious. From what I have observed, their sense of public decorum is about on par with the average "man on the street". What merit affords them the attention of 1/3rd of the worlds population?

Given that the chances of a mere "commoner" interacting with them in any meaningful way is practically null, I would find it exceedingly helpful if someone could explain in clear, concise terms, exactly why anyone should care about anything they choose to do?

[Taverner]

1. So when Lyndon LaRouche and David Icke get together...

what happens?

No one has ever seen the two of them in the same place! Aha!

[freshwest]

4. Of course not! LaRouche is a douche, but Icke is a lot of fun. No resonance there.

[Taverner]

19. They are both insane, however

[freshwest]

25. What is sane is often determined by the rich, the powerful, or the most brutal.

I've been told by native Americans, that they considered the Europeans to be completely insane, in fact, other-worldly insane. When we see what's happened to this continent, they may be right. What do you think of that?

[Taverner]

34. Yes, but just because we behave like psychopaths does not mean there are lizard people

Yes we, America, Capitalism, the whole exceptionalism thing, is textbook sociopath behavior

Exactly what you would expect out of a psychopath

But that STILL does not mean there are lizard people on Earth

[freshwest]

35. And I wouldn't care if there were. It's what anyone does, not what they are, right?

[freshwest]

2. The royal family is the longest running celebrity reality show in the world.

These folks are simply a focal point for energy.

Obviously, the human race loves the illusion they're selling.

BTW, I'm from Mars. No, really. My bloodline is much like theirs.

Even illegal extra-terrestrial immigrants need a place to live.

[TalkingDog]

14. Bread and Puppet Circuses...

klaatu barada nikto

[JackRiddler]

42. You don't speak for the human race.

Plenty of people don't love the illusion they're selling and would like to see that illusion displaced from the destructive sway it holds over the culture.

Furthermore, the feeling is not mutual. They don't love you. They think you're dirt. Common dirt.

For consistency I expect all the DU neo-royalists to endorse the Indian caste system, by the way.

[laconicsax]

3. Teach the Controversy!

http://controversy.wearscience.com/

[freshwest]

5. Wow, I love that link. Thanks for the cool images.

[TalkingDog]

7. Ha! Nice. Thanks for the link!

nt

[GomezLives]

6. We all love a nice wedding.

It isnt the Queen people are hyped up about. Its the kids

[TalkingDog]

10. We? Not me. I have an aversion to conspicuous consumption.

The Spousal Unit and I eloped (BTW).

The "kids" are part and parcel of the Royal Family. If you think their life experiences have been considerably different from hers you are creating a condition of willful ignorance.

Charles has a butler that he keeps on staff (and pays with the Brits tax dollars) because this servant is the only one who knows how to put the toothpaste on Charles' toothbrush the way he likes it.

....... A butler JUST to put your toothpaste on your toothbrush.

Do you imagine that you have absolutely anything in common with these people other than compatible DNA? (unless they really are reptilians, in which case all bets are off)

[GomezLives]

12. The British people want it this way.

They want their royalty pampered and kept nice like the china you never use. Or the room you only use when company comes.

[TalkingDog]

16. And you speak for the British people? Are you British?

Because the British people I know are anti-royalist.....
They'd like the whole lot cleared out and the palaces razed.

So maybe it's just the folks I'm hanging out with, but I don't think your statements so far have been entirely accurate.

[GomezLives]

18. Link to poll - 26% against

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/feedarticle/9612468

[JackRiddler]

26. Correct. And they too are the British people.

So it is a lie to know that 1 in 4 want the monarchy abolished and still speak of "the British people" as a unit that supports the monarchy.

[GomezLives]

27. Yes. Its never 100%

[GomezLives]

29. And what a ridiculous idea that if it isnt 100

you cant say X supports something

[JackRiddler]

31. "The British people" is not 74 percent.

Maybe 95. It is a ridiculous idea to abstract peoples into single-cast nations -- one of the functions of the modern royalty, and other symbolic appeals to the reptile brain, like flags.

[JackRiddler]

30. 26 percent is not a negligible minority. And it's been higher, and it will be higher again.

At some point people will be sick of paying for a clown show while they are impoverished and disrespected.

[HipChick]

21. Maybe the older generation...

but the majority of British folks, especially the younger generation want them gone

[freshwest]

22. Gives TalkingDog one of those winks like snakes and sneaky things do, when you're not looking.

Love the whole thread, really.

And it's wrong about the cuts being made to the poor and vulnerable in Britain, the attack on their social safety net and the destruction of years of progressivism.

Yet the human race loves shiny things, and the royals have got more of that than anyone, despite being a bit cheesy. Watching them gives some people pleasure. In the Great Depression, Hollywood churned out lavish productions that were completely at odds with what many people were living. It was an escape.

Perhaps it's as it's said to be in India, that Bollywood is designed as an escape valve for the very poor. They go to see the movies and are transported away from their problems. They've become resigned to their squalid existance.

Perhaps many Americans, but for those minutes or hours gazing on what they are told is beautiful, and seeing the love and adoration bestowed on the wealthy, it eases their pain and fears.

A fantasy better than real life. But what do I know, really.

[iemitsu]

37. that is the very theme of the wondereful, 1941 film, Sullivan's Travels.

Sullivan's Travels
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sullivan's Travels

theatrical poster
Directed by Preston Sturges
Produced by Paul Jones
Buddy DeSylva (uncredited)
Preston Sturges (uncredited)
Written by Preston Sturges
Ernst Laemmle (uncredited)
Starring Joel McCrea
Veronica Lake
Music by Charles Bradshaw
Leo Shuken
Cinematography John Seitz
Editing by Stuart Gilmore
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) December 1941
Running time 90 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $689,665

Sullivan's Travels is a 1941 American comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges. It is a satire about a movie director, played by Joel McCrea, who longs to make a socially relevant drama, but eventually learns that comedies are his more valuable contribution to society. The film features one of Veronica Lake's first leading roles. The title is a reference to Gulliver's Travels, the famous novel by satirist Jonathan Swift about another journey of self-discovery.

this is a wonderful film.

[freshwest]

38. Hadn't heard of it, but it's true that comedians can say things not allowed in other venues.

Is it on youtube or one of the other websites?

I'd say google but they're going to drop their video archive. It's hoped they'll shift the archive to youtube.

They were a source of many old films. They stopped letting people download from there some time back but you can download full-length features from youtube now.

So I'll check it out. And welcome to DU. :hi:

[iemitsu]

45. thanks for the welcome.

i first saw the film as a kid (not in 1941) when it was shown on television. i have since used it with students while examining the great depression. i have a copy in VHS. i'm sure the film can be rented.
the theme is the struggle to decide between making a film like the grapes of wrath or like a busby berkeley production. one the honest truth (but depressing) the other a distraction.
joel mccrea dresses as a bum and rides the rails to discover what being unemployed is really like. he is knocked out and robbed of his wallet so can't prove his real identity and is forced to really live the life of one down on his luck.
the film is well done.

[JackRiddler]

24. Speak for yourself

[virgogal]

8. It's theater. It's entertainment. It has some element of ritual to it

like a parade.

[GomezLives]

9. BTW. Kate's dress was DIVINE.

[glinda]

32. Yes. I enjoyed the wedding. Am not bitter on this one.

[TalkingDog]

11. Do you go to other people's weddings you don't know? Just for the Ritual?

No snark... I'm serious. If you are watching for the entertainment value, do you go to other people's weddings you don't know to be entertained?

If not, then why these people? What quality affords them your attention?

[GomezLives]

13. The British are big on rituals. Its like a comfortable shoe.

[freshwest]

36. Rituals give the mind a place to rest.

[lunasun]

23. Maybe I could somehow understand this if it was only in England but

why would anyone in USA give a flying fart ?? what a bunch of hoo haw for the gawkers
I sometimes wish I was so easily entranced..........

[virgogal]

43. I didn't watch the wedding,never said I did.,but I have no problem

with people who do like that type of thing.

Different strokes.

[JackRiddler]

28. So what? It's theater and entertainment on behalf of what?

The glory of bloodlines? The superiority of some people over others by virtue of birth? Empire? Militarism? Imperialism? The state as some eternal ritual?

Just because the pageant may please you aesthetically doesn't mean it doesn't have a symbolic meaning.

The "nobility" are conditioned from childhood to think YOU are DIRT. And that is exactly what most of them believe, if you ever come into contact with them.

YOU, THE COMMONERS, ARE DIRT. That is what "nobility" means.

[freshwest]

33. One of the alleged names of their monarch is 'The Welfare Queen.' And it was intimated today that...

Queen Elizabeth, etc., were part of the reason Britain survived the Blitz in WW2. Traumatic events make strange bedfellows.

Those with the least power depend on the benevolence of the more powerful. No matter what the powerful put them through, their sense of comfort is that belief system.

That no matter what happens, it's all 'for their own good' and that the more powerful know best. The royalty just like other institutions in our lives, stand in the place of god. That's where the questions end and the submission begins.

I'm not saying I support that. But it's no mystery to me.

[virgogal]

44. I,a commoner,will never meet them so I don't care what they

think of people like me.

The crowd that spends their summers in the Hamptons would look down on me also.Who cares?

[GomezLives]

15. People dont consider celebrities strangers

So yes they care about them even though its irrational

[TalkingDog]

17. Thank you. I am honored by your implication that I am rational.

n/t

[GomezLives]

20. Its not rational. It just is what it is.

[Generic Other]

39. Historically the monarchs define eras...so they are bookmarks

and very useful for that.

Elizabethan England was shaped by her rule. Victorian England by their Queen. Our era may be characterized by the current Queen's dull ordinary life--her attempt to modernize monarchy by making it seem democratic by emulating proper middle class values--of service to her people where any tea must be sipped or ribbon snipped.

[lunatica]

40. What is so hard to understand about simple human curiosity about others?

If if isn't someone just like you are you really as totally disinterested as you claim? I think you're trying to conflate curiosity that lasts only a couple of days with some kind of obsession.

[RandomThoughts]

41. Ozzy explained that.

Ozzy Osbourne - crazy train lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ihpnwOaJy8


Funny the song says you have to listen to my words, and in both of the songs on youtube the lyrics are wrong.

Here is the question, with millions of people on the internet, do you really believe only two people made a lyric version of that song, and both got it wrong.

Come on, think about it, there are many Internets, and information controls, by observation it is clear.



The media sells it, And you live the role.

[JackRiddler]

46. A portrait of Brenda, the Queen