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 Strong suspicion on my part: the USA ditched Monarchism in 1776 but not the underlying worship of aristocracy. Hence the pomp and pageantry of their President (essentially an elected term-limited 18th century British monarch) and exaggerated respect for the rich (aristocracy substitutes).
@cstross @juergen_hubert A whole slew of German magazines writing about all the European royal houses is another case of that. Then again, the pomposity scene has moved on to first movie stars and now "celebrities", so royalty seems basically the Classic Rock of that.
(And period piece princesses the Night at the Proms?)
@mhd @cstross @juergen_hubert the media serves the dominant class. As such it will rarely divulge the notion that the dominant class is harmful or evil. Or that any other system of society with more social equality is preferable. It can't even imagine that.