Thursday, April 28th, 2011...1:53 pm
O Ceremony, Show Me But Thy Worth
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English taxpayers have graciously agreed to contribute $30 million as a wedding present to Prince William and Kate Middleton. The country meanwhile has implemented austerity measures. This sum comes in addition to the nearly $13 million the monarchy receives in public funds. What do the English receive from the Crown? Entertainment, elaborate spectacles, pump and circumstance.
Theatre for the dispossessed will be broadcast by the international media as a feudal ritual translates into handsome profits for television, newspapers, and magazines. Pageantry in the XXI century reaffirms social stratification and is transmitted to the tax-paying audience: the marginalized.
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