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on Royal Babies -
I make a distinction between the Institution and the person.
The babies born into the institution are always exploited to maintain the institution. The Institution of Monarchy is inherently adverse and corrupt - a hierarchy of power and wealth is an unhealthy cult, wherever it has emerged, it has caused more harm than any of the goods claimed can ever redress.
I wrote this poem to articulate my understanding of this.
_ Royal Babies _
Being born
Into a Family
that dictates
the parameters
of your entire life
in order to
meet the needs of
a thousand year old
Hierarchy of Power,
Wealth and Violence.
That
Is not an easy place to end up.
The person is not the Institution.
The Institution exploits the person.
Abolish the Institution,
free the family,
free their children,
free the people
and
let us
keep it humane
and
just.
Remember this :
when we dehumanise the person,
we maintain the divide.
~
_
Elevating or degrading a person for institutional purposes is the same thing - it is dehumanisation. Given the vast harms of violent hierarchies the reality is those harms are not in any way redressed by any of the claims of good done - they only way to solve those harms is to admit them fully, admit the need for accountability and reparations and admit the inherent corruption of Hierarchy of Wealth and Power, dismantle them and build egalitarian, democratic, deliberative, responsive governance structures that meet the needs of the people.
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