Something like a sign of the times | Conservative daily – postoj.sk

Something like a sign of the times. As if everything was changing too fast. The world as we knew it is falling apart. And the British queen disappeared from him. It was once in the early nineties. The guide showed us the sights of London. But suddenly a noisy group caught our attention. People with banners in their hands stood and shouted in the city center. They called for the end of the monarchy, wrote about the F..cking Queen and called for a republic. The British police carefully guarded them, or rather protected them from other people who looked at them with contempt. We residents of a newly post-communist country could not take our eyes off that party. They seemed funny to us. After all those experiences with the communists, the monarchy seemed quite different to us. Our guide, a somewhat flighty Englishwoman with bright red hair, who lived through her youth in the sixties, proudly told us that the monarchy would soon be over, that no one wanted it in Britain anymore, that they were all degenerate people. But that finally the spoiled family at least started paying taxes. She joked that the next time we come to London, Buckingham Palace will become a museum. And that lady will already be in a home for the elderly. Today, Mrs. Truss is ashamed of her words at the time and would not disturb the monarchy again. Share It was around this time that a young activist named Liz Truss was calling for the abolition of the monarchy and was upset that only members of one family could be the head of Britain. Today, Mrs. Truss is ashamed of her words at the time and would not disturb the monarchy again. She was the last prime minister whom Elizabeth II had time to appoint. I’m watching the news on Thursday night and the reporters are asking the people who are gathering outside Buckingham Palace why they have come. The news of the Queen’s death has not even been released yet. The young woman, actually still a girl, says that she hopes that the queen will recover, that she will live for a long time, that she cannot imagine that she will die. And then later, the news is out, people come in front of the palace, they are silent, they wipe their tears, they stand respectfully, they think, they mourn. In the nineties, everything seemed different. Fukuyama marked the end of history and the definitive victory of liberal democracy. Only wonderful times awaited us. In those good times, the royal family was nothing more than unnecessary junk, which also has enough problems of its own. Something that only serves the tabloids well. A family that can’t even solve its own problems, let alone lead the country. But the whole thing developed differently. In the monarchy and the royal family, there is a tradition that has its own power. Especially in hard times. Death of Elizabeth II. at this time it is somewhat symbolic. Share Today everything is shaky and uncertain. The pandemic started, we have a big war in Europe, energy prices are rising, political culture is declining, governments in many democratic countries cannot function normally and are losing people’s trust. As if all certainties are falling apart and the future is too unpredictable. Death of Elizabeth II. at this time it is somewhat symbolic. Something like a sign of the times that we can’t read well yet. It is not the end of history, but we suspect that it is the end of an epoch.