The Last Imperial Family on Planet Earth and the Irreconcilable Ages of Conquering and Civilization.
Posted: 21 Sep 2022, 17:51
Much has been written about Planet Earth. Much more has happened on it. If only it were an objective observer and documented it over the ages, all of us would be more knowledgeable.
In the absence of that, we are left to patchworks of various writers about it. We know what conquering means. I don’t know if many have a full understanding of what civilization means. Civilizations over the ages have appeared patchworks here and there over different times instead of appearing humanity’s collective project with a trajectory into eternity.
I admit that I am the wrong person to analyze all of this because I lack a formal training about it. I am left to cultural exposures, intuition, and asking questions about them. So, this is part of asking questions about them based on intuitive reactions.
One of my most shocking intuitive reactions came nearly two weeks ago now when I heard for the first time the expression “imperial family” by the late lady of Britain. It was in a recorded vow when she was young.
My mind quickly traveled back in time to the old ages of conquering. There were times when conquering wild lands and animals were revered. If my limited understanding about Europe serves me well enough, Europe was land that was conquered one after another with people reaching as far north as Norway before they set foot on the British Island. The island geographically appears tucked in a remote frontier of ancient conquering and stuck in that mindset ever since, not paying homage to the Pyramids, the Pantheons, or the Coliseum, to mention a few.
Conquering wild lands was elevated to a group of people conquering the lands that others inhabit. That was still revered with the fallacious sense that might makes right.
Fallacious because I do not think that barbarism and conquering are separable. Barbarism is not only what the barbaric unleash, it is also what they fear even when one doesn’t exist. Isn’t it that fear that is the source of creating and keeping in secrecy the five-eyed global monster?
I remember hearing recently some people suggesting that the former USSR was considered among some quarters an existential threat. All along, I have been under the impression that the position of others were defensive, not offensive. So, I don’t know what I got wrong unless it is about something that doesn’t exist.
In contemporary times, conquering has been elevated to Planet Earth’s outer space. The sentiment appears to be the same, which makes it appear frozen in time. Frozen in the age of conquering, it tries hard to project modernity. In that frozen age, psychotic exigencies are acceptable while disciplined practice can be wantonly forgotten. In their view, a stoic exhibition beside a dazzling swagger is not self-revelatory of the frozen age.
In the 21st century here on Planet Earth, observers are suggesting that there is likely to be a groundswell of republicanism out of the Commonwealth and the succession to the self-admitted imperial family rushes, in military regalia that isn't a reflection of legal etiquette or its own Magna Carta, to appear loved. So, if the groundswell of republicanism materializes, the self admitted imperial family may well be the last one on this planet.
Hearing the expression imperial family for the first time came across as projecting the sense of might, rather than virtue, makes right. To that sense of might makes right, the late lady of Britain’s subjects, including many grownup British men, bowed.
Anyone can imagine that in over seventy years of commanding the island’s armed forces, she is more likely than not to have done something awfully wrong. I haven’t read or heard any docile British man that bowed to might raise his head, look her in the eye, and slap her when she did something awfully wrong. No, I did not create slapping. Both Jesus and Muhammad talked about slapping. I have also heard the imperial family’s correspondent say that the late lady was deeply religious. So, she must have read and understood about it.
Now, the imperial family is more likely than not that it is in a state of introspection, soul searching, and reflection. It needs time and space to do that on its own.
Coming back from the age of conquering, barbarism, we can easily be reminded of civil and hence civilization. It is not new. It is only that I do not think that Plato’s Republic and the late British lady’s imperial family are reconcilable.
I do not think that civil societies are existential threats to one another. I do not see why they can’t co-exist into eternity. In the age of civil societies, is it hard to imagine that the people of Russia and Britain can coexist into eternity. Even better, imagine if there were a member of a British royal family that is married to a member of a Russian Czar family. Why couldn’t that become one of the sources of an eternal coexistence of the people of Britain and Russia?
I don’t think these are all hard to imagine once one steps out of the barbaric age of conquering into the the yearnings of civil societies in this contemporary age.
In the absence of that, we are left to patchworks of various writers about it. We know what conquering means. I don’t know if many have a full understanding of what civilization means. Civilizations over the ages have appeared patchworks here and there over different times instead of appearing humanity’s collective project with a trajectory into eternity.
I admit that I am the wrong person to analyze all of this because I lack a formal training about it. I am left to cultural exposures, intuition, and asking questions about them. So, this is part of asking questions about them based on intuitive reactions.
One of my most shocking intuitive reactions came nearly two weeks ago now when I heard for the first time the expression “imperial family” by the late lady of Britain. It was in a recorded vow when she was young.
My mind quickly traveled back in time to the old ages of conquering. There were times when conquering wild lands and animals were revered. If my limited understanding about Europe serves me well enough, Europe was land that was conquered one after another with people reaching as far north as Norway before they set foot on the British Island. The island geographically appears tucked in a remote frontier of ancient conquering and stuck in that mindset ever since, not paying homage to the Pyramids, the Pantheons, or the Coliseum, to mention a few.
Conquering wild lands was elevated to a group of people conquering the lands that others inhabit. That was still revered with the fallacious sense that might makes right.
Fallacious because I do not think that barbarism and conquering are separable. Barbarism is not only what the barbaric unleash, it is also what they fear even when one doesn’t exist. Isn’t it that fear that is the source of creating and keeping in secrecy the five-eyed global monster?
I remember hearing recently some people suggesting that the former USSR was considered among some quarters an existential threat. All along, I have been under the impression that the position of others were defensive, not offensive. So, I don’t know what I got wrong unless it is about something that doesn’t exist.
In contemporary times, conquering has been elevated to Planet Earth’s outer space. The sentiment appears to be the same, which makes it appear frozen in time. Frozen in the age of conquering, it tries hard to project modernity. In that frozen age, psychotic exigencies are acceptable while disciplined practice can be wantonly forgotten. In their view, a stoic exhibition beside a dazzling swagger is not self-revelatory of the frozen age.
In the 21st century here on Planet Earth, observers are suggesting that there is likely to be a groundswell of republicanism out of the Commonwealth and the succession to the self-admitted imperial family rushes, in military regalia that isn't a reflection of legal etiquette or its own Magna Carta, to appear loved. So, if the groundswell of republicanism materializes, the self admitted imperial family may well be the last one on this planet.
Hearing the expression imperial family for the first time came across as projecting the sense of might, rather than virtue, makes right. To that sense of might makes right, the late lady of Britain’s subjects, including many grownup British men, bowed.
Anyone can imagine that in over seventy years of commanding the island’s armed forces, she is more likely than not to have done something awfully wrong. I haven’t read or heard any docile British man that bowed to might raise his head, look her in the eye, and slap her when she did something awfully wrong. No, I did not create slapping. Both Jesus and Muhammad talked about slapping. I have also heard the imperial family’s correspondent say that the late lady was deeply religious. So, she must have read and understood about it.
Now, the imperial family is more likely than not that it is in a state of introspection, soul searching, and reflection. It needs time and space to do that on its own.
Coming back from the age of conquering, barbarism, we can easily be reminded of civil and hence civilization. It is not new. It is only that I do not think that Plato’s Republic and the late British lady’s imperial family are reconcilable.
I do not think that civil societies are existential threats to one another. I do not see why they can’t co-exist into eternity. In the age of civil societies, is it hard to imagine that the people of Russia and Britain can coexist into eternity. Even better, imagine if there were a member of a British royal family that is married to a member of a Russian Czar family. Why couldn’t that become one of the sources of an eternal coexistence of the people of Britain and Russia?
I don’t think these are all hard to imagine once one steps out of the barbaric age of conquering into the the yearnings of civil societies in this contemporary age.