I hope from my comments here and this of others that recent events are not just a "pageant". If you can explain how there is really "nothing more" to it and why we shouldn't care, I'd be grateful for the revelation.

Are the arrests also nothing more than pageantry? I'm pretty sure they're going Real Jail.

I'm not talking about arrests.

But the GP obviously is.

> under the protection of the police and with the consent of multiple international media outlets, and expect public passivity and capitulation.

Criticism of monarchy spreads around with remarkable petulance. When I watch the ceromonies and rituals, I just see it like a cosplay event; if I am completely honest. But that doesn't mean that my new found 'revelation' needs to be weaponized to gain internet points.

I just find it immature. I've got better things to do that either praise or disdainfully scorn at the monarchy. Exactly, who cares! On internet points, ufff... I see the irony already.