Lament For the Hollow Crown

von LePenseur

 

 

... betitelt sich ein Artikel von John Carter auf »The Wentworth Report«, dessen inhaltliche Berech-tigung nur schwer geleugnet werden kann:

The land Elizabeth II inherited was exhausted from the wars, it is true. However, in most other ways it was a vastly better land than the one that she left behind.

Its demographic structure had remained essentially unchanged for thousands of years, with what incursions there were — the Angles, the Saxons, the Danes, the Normans — being cousin peoples whose blood and customs were not so dissimilar. The Church was strong, as was the family; the streets were safe; and the ancient liberties of the Englishman to property, to self-defense, and to speak his mind were honoured by law and custom.

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Was in den ersten Absätzen harmlos-nostalgisch beginnt, gewinnt im weiteren Verlauf deutlich an Kontur. Ein lesenswerter Text, der sich kritisch mit der Rolle unserer europäischen Marionetten- & Operetten-Monarchen auseinandersetzt und mit der deprimierten Feststellung endet:

I mourn, not the Queen who was, but the Queen who should have been. An empty throne could have done as much. She did nothing when she could have acted. Such a waste. The monarch of decline, who declined to save her people. The uniparty loves her.

Leseempfehlung!