As someone who studies kingship and the idea of rulers to my fellow scholars who also study this stuff: why this incessant and persistent twee woobification of kings and queens?
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
This behaviour is even more mystifying when you’ve got some foreigner foisted on you as unelected head of state. Follow some republican (as in anti-monarchy) twitter accounts for a bit of balance. Try
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Replying to @ParanoidAdnoid @nzrepublic and
This is in relation to medieval studies. Also I don’t follow anyone who says this stuff. I am critiquing my field.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Fair enough. I like to read about history but I’m not formally educated in it beyond high school. Serious Q tho, do you think there is any link between the behaviour you are criticising, and the fawning attitude of some towards extant monarchies?
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Replying to @ParanoidAdnoid
Yes I do. I think it’s all part of the same mentality. But the people who study it, who study the mechanisms behind why royalty works to fool the populace, I think they should know better. Instead they feed into it further.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Do you accept that one can be in favour of the monarchy without ‘fawning’ on it, incidentally?
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Replying to @MinooFramroze
I think that monarchy as a system shouldn’t exist. So anyone in favour of it I fundamentally disagree with anyway.
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