It was another killer week, so it’s time for a lazy lazy post which beguiles the brain with pseudo content (and allows the gentle blogger to feed his cat, draw his flounders, and go to bed almost on time). And yet, some commenters say the most terrible truths shine forth from the simplest entries…
Behold a gallery of animated gif crowns. Each sparkles like brilliant jewels however each is actually worthless–a shiny bauble to distract your attention. They are not gold or precious metal: they are made of bits and bytes in cyberspace. And despite that, somehow here we are looking at them.
Crowns really have no place in modern life at all. They come from a different era when we worshiped loud ostentatious leaders who dazzled people with purloined riches or tortured the ones who did not bend their knees. We want no kings or queens any more…especially not in America. It is a bad idea…which somehow keeps on lingering in our collective consciousness. When I looked for animated crowns online, there were so very many. Terry Pratchett once wrote… “It was as if even the most intelligent person had this little blank spot in their heads where someone had written: ‘Kings. What a good idea.’ Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw.”
See how they glisten and do the same thing over and over! Contemplate their emptiness and vainglory. There is so much hollow content on the web–pure junk which is just meant to aggrandize someone else… This last one seems almost like a fool’s hat.
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January 27, 2017 at 7:56 AM
agnesashe
Mmmm – is there a hidden message here! 😁 “loud ostentatious leaders who dazzled people with purloined riches” Sadly, we’ve still got a crown wearer over here – worryingly it looks like there’s a possibility of the fashion spreading across the Atlantic. Didn’t your forefathers fight a war to rid yourselves of kings. 😉
January 28, 2017 at 6:27 PM
Wayne
Hmmm…I hadn’t really thought about it, but now that you mention it, it does sound rather like a certain strongman. We have been trying hard to keep crowned leaders in the history books where they belong, but history has a way of repeating itself. “Donald the First” sounds like a bad episode of Ducktales to me, though.
February 1, 2017 at 6:45 PM
Neomys Sapiens
Well, when looking towards Britain, I’m generally doubting that the idea is all bad. Not that all is well there, but as a UK citizen I would be inclined right now to say: at least we have ..?!? Aaaand Miss Ashe, please do not draw this comparison too far, as your Elisabeths are/were at least more than loud and both of a human complexity, which many uncrowned leaders of states and people lack utterly. Factually, one has to go waay back to be really put off by the sovereigns of Great Britain. Would you have your head of state exchanched for any of the french uncrowned ones (anyone, any time: NO bleeargh!)
Also, many people tend to forget that royalty is not inexorably linked to the dynastic idea. Nor is totalirism. And the metaphors, designations and invocatively named things for which we would have to find other names, were it not for the crowns (technology, nature, systematics, philosophy……)
Can crowns be bad if they are shared by man and tree? The crown nut is not a foolish roy nor edible, but rather indispensible. And the grass crown was only attained by mastership in ancient warfare, not by smoking the most pot. Does the Kingfisher prefer Queenfish? And of course, REME is one of the coolest designations ever given to a specialized body of people in human history!
February 4, 2017 at 12:14 PM
Beatrix
Made me think of Basquiat’s crowns and their legacy in the aesthetics of rap culture. And the fashion house of Juicy Couture who designs such sartorial absurdities as fuchsia pink velour tracksuits for young ladies with “Princess” or Juicy” emblazoned across the arse in rhinestones. Actually I was gifted a bottle of Juicy Couture perfume aptly named “Juicy Couture” – it’s a unlikely but lovely blend of bubblegum, watermelon, and tuberose.
February 6, 2017 at 7:27 PM
Neomys Sapiens
Maybe a reading list for you:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/32486.Crowns
March 7, 2017 at 8:15 AM
Wayne
many thanks for the list, Neomys!