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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Passing Of Old Women Who've Led Admirable Lives.
We live in a large retirement community here in Orange County California. Once strong, healthy, remarkable old women die in our village quite regularly, no fanfare, just attended to by such family and friends as the have left.
So, the Queens death? May she Rest In Peace. I offer up the same respect I do to the ending of my neighbors journeys on destinys road. No more no less.
That said, the pomp, the wasteful opulence, the remaining silliness of monarchy and its ongoing schmooze with Oligarchs is at least an embarrassment. This ceremonial celebration of stacking one group of humans over, and obviously above, all others is the very root system of the hundreds of forms of racial, social, and caste structures flourishing today.
SoFloDenny
(58 posts)But, um, we're not Brits. I find this barrage of media offensive and annoying.
walkingman
(7,512 posts)still love their Civil War heroes - good people on both sides.....😕
Happy Hoosier
(7,082 posts)Many Americans, for whatever reason, feel some sense of cultural connection to the British monarchy. Im not sure why that gets peoples knickers in a twist.
I mean I hate pro football. But I dont get pissy about it being omnipresent this time of year.
Magoo48
(4,659 posts)HAB911
(8,812 posts)the drone or helicopter following the caravan on and on and on, important stuff like that
arlyellowdog
(866 posts)As her coffin processes down the highway. The goat was a lance corporal in the Welsh army for 10 years. Corporal Billy Windsor. Its all camp.
Model35mech
(1,415 posts)I'm really not surprised the same will be true for her funeral.
If you need a new hero, we've still got Jimmy Carter.
scarletlib
(3,400 posts)That said, if thats how the Brits want to spend their money
I am an American. For us to go gaga over the monarchy is really a betrayal of our principles.
Scrivener7
(50,774 posts)a figurehead of an influential nation for 70 years is momentous, and though I think she was a well-meaning person even though she lived her life entirely in a bubble of bigotry and entitlement, I don't really care about pomp surrounding her death. So I don't choose to consume it.
I haven't figured out how to avoid all the discussions on DU about how terrible it all is, though. I did trash keyword Queen, but still stuff gets through.