@perennialloner,
perennialloner wrote:
Your opinions don't always seem aligned is all. Sure, no one's above critique. I just figured you might sympathize with royal families because you seem to value self-preservation as a principle, not just in relation to Jewish communities. Your criticisms of secular Jews are quite universal, across races and ethnicities. I'm sure the same is true for orthodox Jews; they just have fewer options to choose from so it's not as apparent.
I sympathize with children that seem to have a stilted childhood. The best time of one's life is burdened with pomp and circumstance, even if it is a minor role. Childhood today might just be less free in western countries, what with mothers working, play dates choosing one's playmates, and learning one's A,B,C's at a God awful early age. I didn't even know all the colors, until kindergarten. Childhood was so nice with old ladies in the park to give me candy after my mother gave permission. I don't even see tricycles anymore. Kids seem to have to learn how to ride on a two-wheeler with training wheels. Perhaps, I'm just hypercritical. I didn't even know to ask why is the sky blue. Who knew what the color blue was? That was for for older kids.
As far as adult royals, I wonder why no one seems to have made the analogy that they are like a vestigial organ, so to speak, from an earlier time. An anachronism, perhaps. But, if the commoners like them, it's not my business. The masses oftentimes have strange habits, like being content with mundane lives (read: a bit of humor).
