Well I spent a late night watching it all.
Definitely well worth watching, having now seen history made.
It was about 71 years since the last one happened, so not much of the world's population is alive who actually witnessed it take place and TV was not widespread at the time either.
But I still think the whole thing is a load of garbage with a bunch of rituals and was a bit disappointing to see the high use of cue cards and scripts essentially being read out, the priest was even pointing things out on the cards for the king to read.
You would think he would have memorized the whole thing given the length of time he has had to practice for this.
Just makes me think what a public spectacle the whole thing is, it's just all made up for show.
I really wonder what the point of the whole thing really serves these days.
It's purely symbolic and nothing more.
The dark history of this monarchy is nothing to be proud of what so ever.
My question is what role does it even serve these days, but more importantly what benefits do you receive from it?
That family lives it up with the good life and a shitload of wealth and money that they have built up over centuries.
And here we see everyone worshipping them like they are something amazing.
I'm surprised it's lasted as long as it has.
Yes its great to see this from purely a historical perspective, but let's not forget that this institution as they call it has been responsible for some of the darkest parts in human history.
(03-05-2023, 09:02 PM)harm_less Wrote: [ -> ]Testing quote function.
ETA: Working fine for me. User error on your end?
No errors as such, but when I click below the quoted post to type a reply, the quoted post vanishes.
I've found a button on the toolbar that gives advanced editing and thus works however as a workaround.