Friday, March 04, 2005
I'm glad I'm an American
One of the next-best countries in the world (one in which I"d live if I couldn't live here) seems to be pretty screwed up:
If the Royal Family is no longer protected by mystique, but rather is a group of hereditary celebrities competing with other celebrities for space on the front page, what can protect it from the kind of carping criticism that must ultimately destroy it? Can it claim to incarnate the nation, and thus act as a focus for patriotism? But British patriotism is dead — although a nasty form of nationalism remains a minority interest — while Welsh and Scottish patriotism consists mainly of self-pitying hatred of the English. There is no quicker way of emptying a room in Britain than to play the national anthem, which causes the acutest embarrassment. How can a God in whom no one believes be invoked to spare the life of a woman to whom all now believe themselves equal or even superior?If I can understand why one would support one's monarch out of patriotism more than a Britain, especially when it's a monarchy that treated its country pretty well for the lst 400 years, and I'm an AMERICAN (one of a country that founded itself on a hatred of nobility), there's a problem for jolly old England...
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