After a discussion about royal families, and it got me thinking about whether countries, like Denmark, that still have royal families might be a little stuck in the past?
I guess there no real point to having a family that just receive lots of tax-payer money to do nothing, you might have guessed that I personally am slightly against the idea of royal families. One of the things I've heard people say in defence of royal family is that the royal family symbolises nice traditional values, to which I go, yeah? Like absolute monarchy? There's a reason why the people at some point overthrew their kings (and queens for that matter), because they didn't have a say in the decisions made, and they wanted to have (just like with the Arab Spring...)
Maybe countries hang on to royal families like people hang on to things after a break up that remind them of an ex. Because maybe it was bad times at the end of the relationship, maybe it was bad times most of the time, but that's not what we remember. The human memory truly is an evil things, it keeps playing tricks on us...
I apologize for not having a lot to say this week, but it's just been so busy and I kind of want to just have some time off now...
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