(June 5, 2012 at 3:23 pm)Ace Otana Wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Roy...ly#Funding
Still looking into the history and the current power they have. It may take me from a few hours to several days to research.
Why?
The British monarchy started like every dictatorship in human history for the same stupid credulity of human ignorance. The same thing that lead the Egyptians to power.
Humans from an evolutionary standpoint are pattern seeking. The problem that lead to kings/ Pharaohs/ dictators, was the concept that good fortune was linked to the divine. The flaw in our species evolution is that when we do good or get lucky, some magical being must have helped us.
Now, just like I wouldn't give my land back to Native Americans, I do not expect the Royal Family to become poor. But I am quite sure that they have enough private investments that holding that title is needless.
If we are as a species to move to the future, then we must discard even symbolic Royalty. That is not to say that we should erase history. I think that all palaces should be Museums like the palaces and tombs of Egypt. But we should not give blind worship or titles to people that imply the past where power cannot change. "Queen" "King" "Pharaoh" are all sedentary terms of a feudal past . They are archaic concepts even symbolically.
