[Urban Cragou]

Originally Posted by Yuki Maru Hoshi

I thought it was a good speech. It was one he had to make considering all his options, but genuinely I didn't hear anything that was insulting in the message. Parts of it felt like propaganda as if it were an ad for the monarchy but I didn't think there was a connection being made to general politics. Look at all the stuff we've been doing with your taxpayer money, etc.

I agree that it does ignore the self-censorship trap that has rotted everything from within as a culture. More and more people on average simply couldn't care less about the simplest of social boundaries and even basic courtesy. It's like a pushback against social order itself as that has been taken for granted for so long in lieu of a complacent leadership that takes all major issues for granted. Major issues that most people care about, some of which that go beyond even just economics.

The government wants a compliant populace from its own standpoint arguing that it will make it the most effective, when it's already had that era. Monarchy of course will get blamed since it operates in connection with "best governing". People will always be sensitive to directives that they sense operate against its own interests. This is normal. So I don't think Charles can win over new minds with arguments about shared virtues across the "cultural divide" or whatever when those times are now long past. It'll appeal to people who wish to hang onto to the best of what we are even during what is a difficult season for many. So I thought the message spoke to this and so accomplished it's most basic purpose, which was to point to aspects that could uplift as much as it possibly could.

Our culture is dying a natural death and it's not an immigration issue imo. The problems have run deeper and some of those can be pointed to the State. However, unmanaged immigration certainly adds strains to vital systems that people are dependent on and encroaches on lifestyles that people have grown attached to that helped them to weather difficult seasons in the past. Especially those who have felt the world is changing far too rapidly in a wrong direction for their liking. I think it is warranted and a normal feeling to have, but I question if maybe it is futile to keep looking back. My main worry is that the government is not responsible or accountable enough to handle the social issues effectively enough at this point that it will just keep exacerbating these issues. There's a benefit for govt to allow these divisions to continue to fester as it's much easier to campaign on the problems it creates, rather than closing the gap finally and creating solutions to resolve them because those solutions will be politically expensive, either way.

Charles will be more concerned about his legacy as his reign could be cut short very easily and so he would want to be on the right track so when he does go, it's on his terms as far as he's concerned... that said, I always thought he was a bit New Age-y and multicultural by nature, so his message seemed about right in that respect. As a casual American viewer, anyway...

Britain’s in a bad way. You certainly got that right.