“I used to think that there needed to be some sort of elder voice that could hold the memories and wisdom of past generations, maybe someone like the Queen of England, who could represent a “living voice” for traditions and past experiences.”
I too use to embrace the fairy tale notion of the ‘village elder’ or ‘sage old crone’ idea of having an adult in the room.
I am puzzled and saddened that folks might regard the Queen as a “living voice for traditions and past experiences.” She has lived her privileged life in the rarified bubble of entitlement. As top of the aristocratic colonial food chain and system that has caused much greif and pain to those her ancestors have exploited for generations there is little she can offer in my view.
Trump wants a seat at her peerage filled, gilt table and has bullied past convention and good taste to get there. Seeing the Queen “honor” him and his foul off-spring with a state dinner speaks volumes. The way she remains silent on BoJo. When I look at “the Queen”, I see no traditions worthy saving. I get that her voice is constitutionally mute… and therein lies the problem… but could it also be that this spoiled old lady really has nothing to say? How could she? She’s manufactured. She can never be the the wise old crone we trust or look to for direction, example or advice because she is not one of us.
She honestly believes her vast wealth, privilege and entitlements are ordained by divine providence. All others are less favored, must be tolerated and should toil to fill her coffers and curtesy to her crown. Here is a lady who shamelessly shields her son from facing justice as a child rapist, pedephile and repeat sex offender. She clearly believes members of the royal family are immune to societal conventions, rules and laws by allowing them to abuse others with impunity because “it would hurt the the image of the monarchy” to do otherwise.
Now that I’m older, I wonder what my part is in serving as the ‘adult in the room’. While I struggle to find my place, I know this much: Elizabeth Windsor is the antithesis of the ‘village elder’. She may be the head of her family and “Head of State” but I am assured that while she may not be as vulgar as Trump or MoJo, she is nonetheless just at complicit in a shit system that happily allows for 8 human beings on Earth to hold as much wealth as the 50% of the world’s population without comment, apology or interest in correcting.
