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For many centuries "monarchy" is associated with the past and reaction. In Eruope, in America and in our century around the world. We do no see any vertues in it. We use it as the opposite to democracy and freedom. We attribute our progress to the destruction of this institution. Look how slow the human race was developing before and compare the pace with our modern times!First, about the myths.
If you really want to understand the nature of power, read Foucault. New French Thought (after 1968) is considered as "postmodern" -- but their discovery is no less revolutionary than of Marxism. Unlike Marx, Foucault doesn't believe in final solution, he doesn't think that our conflict with the power could be solved, he sees "disciplines" as power which goes through many forms. In short, he writes that this dominance today is no less repressive than yesterday, no, my friends, we are less free now than ever.
This padaox is hard to swallow.
But what if we about to change our point of view and see not the state, but the culture as an intrument of discipline? Immidiately we can notice that we govern by enormous number of written and unwritten rules and laws. This number grown faster than population. I must say that each of us today is a criminal. There are so many laws in US that unlikely that even a lawyer know them all. At any given moment I could be in violation of something.
In this "dark" past we left, there were natural limitations. We had no need to speed limit, because the speed of the best horse is limited. Our future looks like a web of social regulations...
Related pages at Sellassie WWW and Selassie Cyber University
Family Tree, Tree II
History Road
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Moanbessa: Monarchist Party
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