Friday, April 29, 2011

290411 : First Republic

A ROYAL WEDDING EXTRAVAGANZA FINAL EDITION (#6)

These are my last words on the subject. Then I can rest and get some sleep. I hope.

If you'd rather read something intellectual on the subject of the Royal Wedding, Monarchy, and Republicanism, may I point you in the direction of someone I regard as a genius, the very clever and brilliantly passionate and talented word-smith Mr. Simon Indelicate, who uses erudite sentences such as these:
If you realize that Republicanism (UK, not evil US Republicanism) is for you, then may I suggest you join REPUBLIC or, at the very least, read what they say on their website.

To summarize how I feel:

  • I don't believe that there should be a Monarchy.
  • I don't respect any unelected person who claims to rule over me, purely by accident of birth and the fallacy of God's Will.
  • Mainly because I don't believe in God.
  • And because unelected power can only be opposed by revolution.
  • And I'm a pacifist.

With regards to this wedding:
  • Who gets married on a Friday?
  • Because that's just showing off. Why not get hitched on a Saturday?
  • Then we wouldn't be forced into marking the big day with a Bank Holiday.
  • Forced into a pro-Monarchy position whether we like it or not.
  • And where is my invite?
  • Oh yeah, I'm not a dictator with an appalling human rights record. I forgot.
  • Can you genuinely think of a more effective and salient time to protest the Monarchy?
  • Me neither.

With regards to the bride and groom:

  • If it's love, then good luck to them. Like all couples marrying for the right reason (love) I sincerely hope that that love stays with them until the end.
  • But I don't really care that they are getting married anymore than I care any other people I've never met are getting married.
  • And I resent the fact that they will one day claim ownership of the land in which I live.
  • Therefore, I ain't getting no bunting out.
I've peppered these articles with music videos. I recall a fantastic song called Man-Made by a band called Credit To The Nation, for which there is no YouTube video, which suggested:

Take a black woman and a black man too / give them to the Royals so they can screw / Black woman with Edward /Black man with Andrew / Then the Windsors would have some colour.../ Edward would be pleased and Andrew would be happy and gay / And they'd set the rules by which they'd played.
Now these would be weddings / sex-tapes I might be interested in seeing.

You may remember me writing "But I wish that they would do the good, honest thing and dissolve the monarchy and fuck off to Las Vegas, and run their pathetic side-show in the new ‘Buck House’ hotel and casino complex" and I stand by that, 100%.

I don't want a violent revolution. I don't want one drop of blood to spill.

But I do want the Monarchy to go away.

I'm wearing my Sex Pistols T-shirt today and going to work. Bank Holiday my arse.

Two videos. 1 obvious. 1 less so.

Repeat after me: No Monarchy.


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Goodnight, and mythical-invisible-white-haired-old-man-in-the-sky bless.

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1 comment:

  1. Does this mean you're *finally* changing your religious stance from agnostic to atheist?

    ;)

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