Or you could simply choose to ignore it all. Most Britons are choosing to do so. A YouGov poll shows that 66 percent of UK residents aren’t interested in the royal wedding, and 60 percent plan to have a regular weekend. And they actually live in England. What excuse do we have?
Founding father Thomas Paine once said he couldn’t conceive of a more ridiculous figure of government than the king of England, adding that “a hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.” Then good ol’ Tom backed it up by helping us start a war to rid ourselves of this primitive system of government. Sure, the royalsdon’t hold much actual power anymore—but here we are, long-liberated democrats who just can’t quit our former island overlords. It’s like a case of postcolonial Stockholm syndrome that’s lingered for centuries.
But no one is forcing us. Instead of watching a wealthy prince marry an actress in a fucking castle, maybe sleep in this Saturday. Go outside on a pleasant Chicago spring day. If you really need to watch something from a British leader—watch Jeremy Corbyn’s inspirational speech at Glastonbury last year. Or revisit this clip from Monty Python’s Holy Grail—the funniest-ever takedown of the British crown.
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