The Crown Continued

 

We chat about THE CROWN on this weeks episode. I think this is the best season of THE CROWN and I have endless curiousity about the writers and their thoughts on power, greed and what creates character. By character I mean how humans build character and ethics. THE CROWN season 4 seems to put a heavy blame on family. The responsibility of building chracter lies in what we teach our children in our communities. The many roles in the season cold work as personifications for approach to society. The Queen represents Liberalism. Liberalism seems to credit itself with all the good of the life yet they don't do the hard work at making ggodness and ethics for all of the society.The liberal dependance on good manners and customs creates compassion is an illusion. (thats not why we practice good manners, we practice them so when life presents us with heightened emotions we don't run rough-shod over each other) Prince Philip seems to represent Libertarianism with it's vitality for the individual working around freedom in a control system. He can get away with his betrayals as he is a freshman thinker in an oppressed society. Prrince Charles is the personification of conservatism which feels it is doing good by holding on to tradition therefore it's paid its dues and should be able to find love. But there is no freedom for love in a Conservative framework. Thatcher is postmodernism. And she is the predessessor to Trump. They think there is no meaning in life therefore they can reject the good works of labor, mock the military as if it is there for their own granduer, and the elite population is decadent and follows mindless customs. The dysfunction of the royal family mirrors the dysfunction of all communities who do not do the work of teaching community and social justice either through caring and support for the less fortunate, or assuring that all of a citizenry have food, meaningful work, and health care and shelter. And that shelter also means warmness, kindness and company. Princess Diana was the manifestion of the Shakespearean concept that a corrupt country can only be healed by rebirth. Adeath by violence then rebirth (se HAMLET and A WINTERS TALE as examples) . Although the stag hunt in this season was a play on the mythology of Diana and evading a hunter, capturing Charles...it is really that a vrgin princess was captured and eventually killed in order to reboot the UK. I can only imagine that the palaces must become public property and museums or tourist sites like Vesailles. The profit of turism going straight back to the citizenry and infrastucture of the country. I think the same thing must eveolve in te USA. Route 66, the museums in DC, the great cities and economy of the fallen USA transformed into a tourist economy to support the people. This transformaton occured in France, Italy where robust democracies have tempered extremists like Thatcher, Bushes, Regans and Trumps.