Doug Casey on monarchy

From around 12,000 B.C. to roughly the mid-1600s, the world’s cultures were organized under strong men, ranging from petty lords to kings, pharaohs, or emperors. 

It’s odd, to me at least, how much the human animal seems to like the idea of monarchy.  It’s mythologized, especially in a medieval context, as a system with noble kings, fair princesses, and brave knights riding out of castles on a hill to right injustices.  As my friend Rick Maybury likes to point out, quite accurately, the reality differs quite a bit from the myth.  The king is rarely more than a successful thug, a Tony Soprano at best, or perhaps a little Stalin.  The princess was an unbathed hag in a chastity belt, the knight a hired killer, and the shining castle on the hill the headquarters of a concentration camp, with plenty of dungeons for the politically incorrect.

~ Doug Casey, "End of the Nation-State," International Man, December 7, 2023