(September 9, 2022 at 3:20 am)Rev. Rye Wrote:(September 9, 2022 at 1:44 am)Tomato Wrote: Why does the monarchy persist if it's merely symbolic at this point?
I'm inclined to think it persists largely because it's a symbol. What exactly it's a symbol of isn't 100% clear (their history, the sort of dignity people should aspire to, I just wrote 2000 words on this movie and the significance of the Queen and I'm still not sure), but one thing is: Elizabeth was almost certainly better at being that symbol than Charles is.
Charlie may look like a lobotomized shrimp when waxing lyrical about what he approves of, but at least he exhibits signs of possessing marked less disreputable moral standards compared to the British conservative establishment when giving public signs of what he disapproves of.
