I Don't Understand the Obsession with the British Royal Family.

Why is it so many Americans are obsessed with the doings of the British Royal Family?  I don't get it.  We're Americans.  I thought all that royalty crap was against our nature, our very being.  When I see all the hoopla here in the US around the wedding of William and Kate I have to ask myself what is fueling this nonsense. 

The answer, I think, is most distressing.  Too many Americans are just simple-minded enough to be entertained by what they see as a real-life fairy tale without regards to the realities of what royalty represents - oppression of the masses through the maintenance of an artificial stratification of the population.  Royalty is about keeping the masses in their place. 

Whether it's British or Saudi or any other royalty, they achieve their social status by convincing the masses that they are more worthy than the plebeians and there are just enough peons who are dumb enough to accept this view to keep the system going.  The peons provide just enough voice to shout down any criticism of royalty. 

These sad individuals live in a fantasy world where they occupy a role within the royal arrangement.  For that, I blame those like Disney corp. who provide unquestioning legitimacy through the telling of fairy tales.  From early childhood on, our society, through the telling of these fairy tales, imparts the notion that wealth and power are a matter of birthright.  While modern education should counter this notion, it seems almost powerless to overcome the childhood programming our kids often receive.  Hence, too many of our kids grow up with the notion that inherited wealth and power is legitimate.  

Even our news media give credence to this notion of royal legitimacy.  CNN, for instance, has provided continuing coverage of the royal wedding, without ever questioning what they are doing.  How is it that a marriage ceremony is so important that the nations largest television news agency suspends virtually all other coverage?  It's because the morons demand it, and CNN is clearly in the business of pandering to morons.

And, Its not just CNN.  All three major networks suspended regular programming to cover the royal wedding.  Why?  Is it just pandering to the ignorant masses, or is there something else afoot? I don't pretend to have an answer to that question, but I do think it should be asked.

I called Steve Ogden's office today.

I called to register my objection to the bill requiring women seeking an abortion to view an ultrasound of the fetus.  My objection, I think, is based on solid conservative grounds.  The principle upon which I base my objection is: "The government has no business trying to regulate the moral behavior of individuals where there is no legitimate state interest."  What State interest is at issue here, other than pandering to anti-abortion zealots?  The point is, this bill is purely political with absolutely no practical value with regard to State business.  Government should not be in the business of pandering to special interests, whether they are right-to-lifers or contractors, or doctors, or lawyers, or Indian chiefs.  Government should be concerned only with the interests of it's constituency and then only within constitutional limits. The bill at issue here is well outside the legitimate purview  of government IMO.

Certainly, people have a right to an opinion and a right to express that opinion even to the point of trying to win others over to that view.  Our first amendment recognizes that right.  However, we step over the line when we use government to require people to behave a certain way under penalty of law unless there is a compelling state interest at stake.