German #folklore is _full_ of tales of evil, prideful nobles who were eventually punished for their sins.
So why is modern media - starting with #Disney , and moving on from there - so full of pro- #monarchy propaganda instead? Lots of "Just Kings", "Plucky Princesses", and so forth. Why is the implication in media nowadays that being exalted by the circumstances of your birth is likely to make you a good person? Instead of being totally oblivious to your own class privilege - and that's probably the _best_ case!
I wonder if anyone has done any scientific research on all these "pro-monarchy" narratives in modern media, and how they came into existence.
@juergen_hubert Americans, especially earlier in their history, are obsessed with monarchy. It’s heredity rule they don’t like. There’s something in American culture that deeply wants a hierarchy, they just need the hope that ‘democracy’ or ‘success’ could allow them to be the top regardless of the family they were born into. That desire somehow bleeds into everything they do be it expensive elite schools, the high budget risk-averse media, two party system, etc.
The US forked British Monarchy™ in 1776, but froze the dev branch with Constitution 1.0, so didn't bother to backport any of the subsequent bugfixes and security patches (1831, 1918, 1938, etc.) from the main British branch.
Anyway, you've got a bunch of British Monarchy™ users who instinctively want to tug the forelock but don't have anyone to tug it *at* and it upsets them because homebrew is no good—it takes 700 years of inbreeding to roll your own nobility.
@cstross @gregarofence @juergen_hubert Maybe our aristocracy doesn't go back so far, but it's kind of surprising how many presidents were close relatives of other presidents, and there were a lot of bumperstickers calling for the Obamas to become a dynasty.