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It’s very historical and fun and tourist-attracting, but it’s difficult to take the monarchy seriously anymore.

The Queen is purely a figurehead anyway. Things are decided by Parliament; I’m sure we all know that. There really is no point in having a Queen, other than it makes printing and minting money that much easier, since you never have to make a decision about what’s on the back of the coin.

The trouble is, we’ve come entirely too far to do anything about changing it. It would require nothing short of a flat-out revolution to change these things, and as far as I know, people are too frightened, lazy and contented to revolt these days.

If times were bad, everyone would love a revolution. But currently, the situation is that people are perfectly happy with the way things are. Everyone has their little complaints, but by far not enough to do anything about them (other than complain). Things are “ok” how they are, and that seems to be all that most of us need.

Of course, one revolutionary isn’t going to make a huge difference. We need lots and lots of people to kick things off, and I suspect that such a thing won’t happen in the Western world, ever. If nuclear war were pending then it might galvanise people into action. But nothing short of the threat of impending apocalypse is going to work.

Technocracy

But what if it did? Wouldn’t that be great? The space-race, nuclear war, chemical war, electronic war (Die Hard 4.0 style) or some other modern cause for panic that’s faster than global warming starts, and everybody goes crazy. What will happen? Well, if we’re lucky, people will turn to the scientists to protect them. If the populace gets desperate enough, they might turn to something they don’t understand to salvage their world. Presently, we are more than happy to elect leaders based on their persuasive words, not their persuasive qualifications. Tony Blair studied jurisprudence at Oxford. The theory and philosophy of law. What I want is a prime minister who studied physics or maths. Maybe the world would turn to men of science in its time of desperation.

With more and more parts of our lives being influenced by technological advances, why are we not searching for officials who excel in scientific fields? Get the right people and they can run the world like a well-oiled machine, not the festering ball of corruption and politics and war and religion that it is now. When we get to the fucking moon, do you think the astronauts are going to let just anyone come and live in their perfect new paradise? Fuck no! They’re going to let the war-mongers and the politicians and the bureaucrats and the kings and queens and the presidents all kill each other on Earth (or, as it will be referred to then, the Doomsphere) with their nukes and greenhouse effect while the Moonians (or maybe lunar-tics?) will instate a High Technocrat, a man of (computer) science and logic, to be the head of the state.

I vote: me.