A Very Republican Sickness: Loving Royal Weddings
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By Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Global Research
“Thinking that you actually know a public figure – in the intimate, best-friend kind of way – is not healthy.” – Katie Stow, Harper’s Bazaar, Oct 17, 2017.
The citizenry of the US Republic might well insist on the sanctity of its laws, a prided exceptionalism and the genius that is the Constitution, but there is no provision as to how to combat a known, recurring sickness: royal watching and monarchical mania. The House of Windsor continues to pull people out of beds and from their tasks with hypnotic appeal, most notably during a wedding occasion.
The nuptials of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle seem the stuff of a regressive nightmare, a progressive’s conversion to the forces of reaction and misplaced adoration. As a social state...