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One take that I haven't seen made anywhere on the topic of Russia is that regicide is a actually not that unusual of an occurrence in the history monarchies, and is usually followed by an appearance of another king...
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The narrative is that there has been some fundamental break, with monarchic forms of governance in the past, and with democratic forms in the future -- but what if it's simply the same pattern that had been happening for millennia made "hyperreal" by proliferation of media?
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Counterfactual history (from the point of view of memetic theory): The "meme" that had killed the king "wants" us to believe that the king will never come back. Had it been otherwise, the king would not have been killed.
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