It's Good To Be The King

That's what we've been spoon fed to believe, and this age-old indoctrination scheme goes on to this day. Today's king goes by another title, be it oligarch, multi-billionaire or simply billionaire; they're still kings and we're still peasants. So today we're going to debunk some fairy tales...

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Shrek, the first one, is one of only a few stories I know of that depicts the king in his true form; a greedy, self-centered megalomaniac who has regard for nothing but his own power who keeps up the appearance of caring for his subjects. Lord Farquaad in one scene addresses his champions, his knights in shining armor, sending them on a dangerous quest to find and free from the claws of a fearful dragon the love of his life. His admission to the dangers these knights will face is the perfect synopsis of all kings' basic attitude: "Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make." That's so true; the greed for money and power of kings in all ages, including our own, is literally killing us. I mean, generally speaking, the people who try to convince us that billionaires are good for us are the same who claim that climate change is a hoax...

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They're also the same people who insist that the insanely rich and powerful are somehow more deserving, more valuable than Joe Average, that their supposed unrelenting hard work and extreme brilliance somehow set them apart, place them above all the rest of us; it's some kind of built-in billionaire worship among regular people that's matched only by the billionaire exceptionalism among the modern aristocrats themselves. The clearest sign that it is indeed still the kings who decide what we're allowed to own, believe and be ultimately, is the fact that the worshiping of the king is still spoon fed to us. I love science fiction and fantasy, but even in the very best of those narratives, rulers are made out to be loving, caring and exceptionally capable individuals who had to endure the greatest of hardships to earn their place on the throne; Paul Atreides in Frank Herbert's Dune and Aragorn in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings spring to mind immediately.

The problem is that we are, we become the stories we tell each other, and this starts at a very early age with the bedtime stories we tell our children; almost all kings in all fairy tales are the same, deeply caring for their people, any injustice by their hands explained by their loving ignorance or the trickery of their evil entourage, like Jaffar in Aladdin. Believe me, my dear friends, not only history is written by the victors; in the eternal battle between the classes the fairy tales are also written by the winners, or their over-payed heralds. These heralds are called mainstream media and mainstream entertainment in our age; the task of propagating the king's lies now rests on their trusty shoulders.

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I don't believe I have to elaborate on that if you're a regular visitor of my blog, but if you're new here, be welcome my friend, and let me point out how the very rich are almost exclusively portrayed as our eager benefactors. These billionaire do-gooders are even invited on television to lament and shed tears over news that some peasants would very much like to see their taxes increased by a tiny percentage. When articles start appearing with titles like Why Billionaires Are Good for Us and Billionaires are good (this is a really egregious smear-piece), it's way past the time to shake off these age-old delusions that make greed an honorable trait to have. When someone like Bernie Sanders, or me for that matter, says that "billionaires should not exist", that's not blaming the billionaires but criticizing this dangerous fairy tale that so much still believe with all their hearts and minds, but is killing us here in the real world.

Princesses don't kiss frogs, kings are no Gods nor heroes, and billionaires are not good for society; becoming one should not be aspired to, for the good of the people, but the raw might of the king has always been and still is expressed in the reality that all stories we're told all days all the time. The videos linked herein are all scenes from another story I know that's at least trying to be hones about the king's true character, Mel Brooks' History of the World: Part I; watch them (you can also enjoy the Shrek scene by following the link from the cover image), be amused by them, but then ask yourself: is it really good to be the king?

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