the NPC central dogma

omg is that a heckin CROWN? I'll do whatever 'er majesty wants

@augustus I dig the monarchy in a pragmatic sense

@skells our present one another shadow on the wall of plato's cave. too many people want to get fooled by it.

@augustus

There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”

- G.K. Chesterton

@skells The people who cut off the head of Charles I didn't think this way, and the fake monarchy they installed in 1688 shouldn't be treated as the same thing. I used to appreciate Chesterton's fence but now I see it, and all of conservatism, as pure copes designed to cuck the right and prevent them from destroying things that benefit the left and tricking them into preserving standards and institutions erected by the left that only benefit the left.

@augustus check out Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France if you get the time

@skells check out Carlyle's Latter Day Pamphlets for why you shouldn't preserve dead lifeless shams just for the sake of it

@augustus

I will, and I wouldn't call our constitution a lifeless sham - just look at France and Germany if you've any doubt

https://www.parliament.uk/business/lords/media-centre/house-of-lords-media-notices/2021/november-2021/evidence-to-support-mandatory-nhs-staff-vaccination-not-good-enough-says-lords-committee/

@skells the monarchy certainly is a sham, so is liberal democracy. and it's called an "unwritten constitution" because it doesn't actually exist and is just whatever the particular elites in charge at any moment want to do

@augustus @skells kind of like written constitutions

@lain @augustus it's worked for over a thousand years and, while due for one of its regular tune ups, I dig it