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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I don’t really understand that question.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @MinooFramroze
You can rationalise monarchy without “fawning”. In NZ, many people dislike the idea in theory but because “it ain’t broke” and “fixing” it would cause constitutional difficulty (not least around the relationship between the state and the Māori people) they favour retaining it.
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