06-01-2005, 11:49 PM
Off topic (sorta) question about European politics.
Somebody mind explaining why so many Europeans cling so tightly to outdated goverments like monarchy? Not flamebait, honest... I don't understand how folks could live willingly under somebody's thumb like that. I don't get it. Call me a dumb American if you will, but it is a question I have wanted to ask for quite some time. What makes some lazy bugger so special that they can laze about in some spectacular palace squandering their wealth while so many of their own population goes to bed hungry or doing without basic human needs? I realise that a lot of European countries are moving to democratic or socialist governments, but why are some folk hardcore royalists? I think all of the people that truly believe that they are noble by birthright and deserve the world on a platter need to be rounded up and placed in a psychiatric hospital for observation. And the idea that other human beings, even poor ones, support this delusion, well, that falls in the catagory of mass hysteria methinks. I fail to understand how somebody would willingly subject themselves and make another human being their "master." There is either a lot of fear or a lot of brain washing involved, and I can't say I agree with either one.
Somebody mind explaining why so many Europeans cling so tightly to outdated goverments like monarchy? Not flamebait, honest... I don't understand how folks could live willingly under somebody's thumb like that. I don't get it. Call me a dumb American if you will, but it is a question I have wanted to ask for quite some time. What makes some lazy bugger so special that they can laze about in some spectacular palace squandering their wealth while so many of their own population goes to bed hungry or doing without basic human needs? I realise that a lot of European countries are moving to democratic or socialist governments, but why are some folk hardcore royalists? I think all of the people that truly believe that they are noble by birthright and deserve the world on a platter need to be rounded up and placed in a psychiatric hospital for observation. And the idea that other human beings, even poor ones, support this delusion, well, that falls in the catagory of mass hysteria methinks. I fail to understand how somebody would willingly subject themselves and make another human being their "master." There is either a lot of fear or a lot of brain washing involved, and I can't say I agree with either one.
All alone, or in twos,
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."