The World Does Not Need Kings Or Queens
Let humanity bring this to an end very soon
“Monarchy is pure, the sovereignty being entirely vested in the king, whose power is incapable of legal limitation. All law is a mere concession of his will, and all constitutional forms and assemblies exist entirely at his pleasure. …” (John Neville Figgis, “The Divine Right of Kings”)
When Queen Elizabeth died yesterday, I immediately said to myself: maybe this is the end, at last. No more of this fictitious monarchy.
Everyone on earth knows it is ceremonial in nature. There is nothing the King or Queen of England actually does really but yet, here we go again. Charles, the son of the Queen, is now King. God save us all.
We all know the age of monarchies is long over though human nature keeps it alive. Most European nations no longer have a king or queen that truly governs complex and sophisticated nation-states on a daily basis. Even if there is still a monarchy, it is a shell of its historical self and does little.
In Asia, this is also true though some monarchies still exist. But Japan is run by bureaucrats and…
