Watching “The Crown,” and holy shit I just want to see the guillotines rolled out.
Bruh thats some self-harm right there.
i watched the frig out of that. as a wayward colonial yank separated from the metropole by an Atlantic Ocean, i have never kept up on the royals because interest has always seemed so voyeuristic and celeb fetishizing. but hey, you deliver the material in a prestige TV format with high production value, large set pieces, and establishing shots: i am in.
so, yeah, it’s been pretty revelatory.
hot takes:
- what a solid gold asshole Prince Phillip is! the Queen Mum sure can pick em.
- lol @ Edward VIII… what a fuckin’ loser. “i don’t want to be the king, it’s too confining. yeah, sure OK, i’ll be a puppet king for fascists because being out of the loop on a stipend isn’t exciting anymore that nobody gives a shit about me.”
- Mountbatten getting lit up was definitely a high point. Charles Dance is a phenomenal actor, because I hated his ass.
- so H.R.H. kinda took an unprecedented stand against Thatcher’s bullshit, but then gives her a medal or some shit when her bed-shitting political project finally turns against her. gimmie a break. last meeting shoulda been “get fucked” and then lighting that atrocious hairdo on fire. points to Gillian Anderson for making me hate her.
- Prince Charles seems pretty traumatized. i liked what he did with the learning welsh and delivering his big talk in it, but after his and the broader family’s treatment of Diana, the whole lot of them can get got in the streets for all i care. also, someone get this guy to stand up straight? christ.
- damn, i guess i shouldn’t be surprised that the institution locked up those born royals with obvious developmental disabilities and declared them dead, but that’s some ice cold shit. i guess these are the mechanisms you gotta have in place for all the inbreeding in your hereditary power structure to make it seem like a good idea to the subjects.
- zero sympathy for the royals. like, sure, maybe your life of privilege and esteem for being born infected you with some kind of existential depression or whatever, but goddamn go hang out on some crown possession in the Carribean, rock the ganj, and like drop some coins on literacy and environmental projects or someshit.
Love him trying to create a coup exclusively with elite bankers and other plonkers, only stopping cause the Queen gave him a talking to on the phone
Also he was accused of sexual abuse and it sucks the show omitted that. (makes the ‘friendship’ with Charles really terrifying as well)
I tried watching this but got bored before the first ten minutes had ended, is it worth pushing further?
Monarchy is no different than any other bourgeoisie ideology
Are you implying here that Monarchy is a bourgeois ideology? Because that doesn’t make sense. Chiefly because monarchy preceded the bourgeois’ existence. The Bourgeois capitalist revolution was actually against monarchy/aristocracy. The new class of wealthy traders and industrialists and later financiers wanted rights and respect denied by the aristocratic and monarchical norms of the time. Sure, they then turned around and implemented those very same structures with a wall-paper cover of liberal institutions and meritocratic myths, but the ideology that underlies monarchism is radically different than that which underlies bourgeois capitalism/democracy. Don’t take my word for it though, this shit gets covered in the Communist Manifesto.
From where I sit, there are material/structural similarities (with important differences too), but the underlying ideologies are radically different with Monarchy being somehow even more grotesque.
I was just speaking to The German Ideology where Marx outlines the stages of human development and shows that its only in communism that you lose the master-slave relationship. More things change the more they stay the same type of deal
