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So, in recent domestic news (Holland) Someone insulted the royal house saying:
''**** the king, **** the royal house''
etc something down those lines.
The government fined that person for 500 euros and the old native dutch people (simpleton sheep with a delusional sense of patriotism) support the idea of punishing anyone that insults the royal family.
it reminded me of something I marked in one of my books called 'The Prince' by Niccolò Machiavelli.
I quote: "Meantime across Europe, the princes and princesses of ancient noble families took to marrying and remarrying each other in an ever-thickening web of defensive alliances, as if density of blood and lineage might offer protection against the threat of usurpers or, worse still, Republicanism and democracy. No family was more practised at this upmarket dating game as the Medici, who, partly thanks to an extraordinary network of connections, would hang on in Florence in a client-state twilight lasting more than 200 undistinguished years. Meantime, from Paris to Madrid to Naples, the court clothes became finer, the statues and monuments more pompous and the whole royal charade more colorful and more solemn, as though people might somehow be dazzled into believing that a king or a duke really did have a right to rule. Many prestigious works of art were commissioned with precisely this idea in mind. But most of Europe's rulers worked hard to put a halo round their crowned heads, to appear religious and at all costs to uphold the Faith, sensing that this too would bolster their position and draw attention away from the mystery of their privileges. Later still, particularly after the French Revolution had destroyed any illusions about the rights of monarchs, the rather desperate card of 'respectability' was played."
I quote another piece:
"To this long-drawn-out conspiracy of pomp and pious circumstance, Machiavelli's little book was a constant threat. It reminded people that power is always up for grabs, always a question of what can be taken by force or treachery, and always, despite all protests to the contrary, the prime concern of any ruler. In their attempt to discredit 'The Prince', both religious and state authorities played up the author's admiration for the ruthless Borgia, and never mentioned his perception that in the long run a ruler must avoid being hated by his people and must always put their interests before those of the aristocrasy; the people are so many, Machiavelli reflected, that power ultimately lies with them."
This charade especially includes the Papacy and everything related to the Vatican. The book is full of historical facts revolving around Pope Alexander, Julius and others that went on crusades and waged war whilst upholding the illusion of their holyness. Cardinals and popes are just high-ranking masons and pedophiles, thus me getting pissed off at gullible idiots on the base that gave praise to the current Pope in previous threads.
So, I wonder what view do nb members have on respecting royalty?
current king of the Netherlands:
''**** the king, **** the royal house''
etc something down those lines.
The government fined that person for 500 euros and the old native dutch people (simpleton sheep with a delusional sense of patriotism) support the idea of punishing anyone that insults the royal family.
it reminded me of something I marked in one of my books called 'The Prince' by Niccolò Machiavelli.
I quote: "Meantime across Europe, the princes and princesses of ancient noble families took to marrying and remarrying each other in an ever-thickening web of defensive alliances, as if density of blood and lineage might offer protection against the threat of usurpers or, worse still, Republicanism and democracy. No family was more practised at this upmarket dating game as the Medici, who, partly thanks to an extraordinary network of connections, would hang on in Florence in a client-state twilight lasting more than 200 undistinguished years. Meantime, from Paris to Madrid to Naples, the court clothes became finer, the statues and monuments more pompous and the whole royal charade more colorful and more solemn, as though people might somehow be dazzled into believing that a king or a duke really did have a right to rule. Many prestigious works of art were commissioned with precisely this idea in mind. But most of Europe's rulers worked hard to put a halo round their crowned heads, to appear religious and at all costs to uphold the Faith, sensing that this too would bolster their position and draw attention away from the mystery of their privileges. Later still, particularly after the French Revolution had destroyed any illusions about the rights of monarchs, the rather desperate card of 'respectability' was played."
I quote another piece:
"To this long-drawn-out conspiracy of pomp and pious circumstance, Machiavelli's little book was a constant threat. It reminded people that power is always up for grabs, always a question of what can be taken by force or treachery, and always, despite all protests to the contrary, the prime concern of any ruler. In their attempt to discredit 'The Prince', both religious and state authorities played up the author's admiration for the ruthless Borgia, and never mentioned his perception that in the long run a ruler must avoid being hated by his people and must always put their interests before those of the aristocrasy; the people are so many, Machiavelli reflected, that power ultimately lies with them."
This charade especially includes the Papacy and everything related to the Vatican. The book is full of historical facts revolving around Pope Alexander, Julius and others that went on crusades and waged war whilst upholding the illusion of their holyness. Cardinals and popes are just high-ranking masons and pedophiles, thus me getting pissed off at gullible idiots on the base that gave praise to the current Pope in previous threads.
So, I wonder what view do nb members have on respecting royalty?
current king of the Netherlands:
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