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C3 and "The Homage of the Slaves" from Iain Davis : "Your “allegiance” means you pledge your “obedience” in return for protection. This is commonly known as a “protection racket.”!

Hi folks - a recent goodie from ID :

" Sky News reporting:

For the first time in history the public will be given an active role in the coronation, having been invited to say the oath to the King out loud.

Of course, the whole point of his oath is that he, as the head of state, swears his allegiance to us. But let’s not allow our codified constitution to get in the way of a good old, statist hallucination. We haven’t for more than 800 years, so why start now?

That being said, it is not without good reason that an apparent majority of people have decided that they do not want to pay “homage” to an inept toff. This seems reasonable, because it avoids making the bat-shit crazy decision to pledge your “obligation of fidelity and obedience” to some bloke wearing a load of moody gold.

For those who fancy the idea of enslaving themselves to a clueless aristocrat, before you guffaw in scornful rejection of any suggestion that you are, in fact, choosing to be a slave, it is perhaps worth noting what an oath of allegiance actually means:

[. . .] the obligation of fidelity and obedience which the individual owes to the government under which he lives, or to his sovereign in return for the protection he receives

Your “allegiance” means you pledge your “obedience” in return for protection. This is commonly known as a “protection racket.” "

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Simon Elmer approaches the same topic from the ‘social cement’ angle i.e. the venal royals are ostensibly a collective ‘binding’ of the nation (hence we gladly pay for their extravaganzas despite the fact these could easily be afforded without diminishing their dragon hoard). While, in reality, the king wields a velvet cudgel by which the State compels obedience, whether allegiant or otherwise. But especially in the latter case, because really it’s only the allegiant that is being ‘protected’.