/lit/ - Literature

>>10064380
>>10064390
The funny thing is, the guillotine is the very essence of monarchy. The extremes of governments are: who lives under them, and who dies under them. The guillotine institutes the state just as much as the edict of nantes. And, in the hands of the dogmatists the guillotine was perhaps a solemn sentence. But in the hands of the enlightened democrats the guillotine became bloodthirsty and barbaric.
Monarchy was indeed a gilded cage, but democracy is a rusty prison. Yes, under king's rule there were harsh punishments awaiting dissenters but these punishments were at least grounded in ecclesiology. But, in democracy the punishments that await you are just as terrible and infinitely more subversive. Living within a state system that does nothing to aid the human project but only furthers its own capital, is itself a punishment. The only way forward for humanity is the infrastructure that monarchy provides; the state must once again become a spiritual institution. If all human institutions are rational, then they certainly do not institute humanity.
The medieval university outpaces our modern ones in every way except for science. And I see no reason why we can't take what they had, and bring it to the 21st century, shifting philosophy and literature and art back onto equal terms with the sciences. And I see no reason why a monarchy, today, could not be liberal, free, and just. It has the infrastructure to do so, and can guarantee freedom from everything except its fundamental precepts, at the cost of adherence to them. Whereas democracy can only guarantee freedom from its fundamental precepts, at the cost of adherence to everything else. Indeed at the cost of being human, at the individual level and the state level.

>>9507916
When I was little... I heard a sound
When I was little... I saw a shining thread
I spent my life trying to pull it
It still remains; it is still
The cause of my pain