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Thread #146977 Message #3405077
Posted By: Little Hawk
15-Sep-12 - 11:04 AM
Thread Name: BS: More naked royals
Subject: RE: BS: More naked royals
Unlike pop stars, famous politicians, and people like Donald Trump or Paris Hilton, the Royals did not choose their fate in life, Steve...they were born into it...though I suppose you could argue that someone who marries a Royal chose her fate. On the other hand, why shouldn't she marry a Royal if she wants to? Someone has to, after all! ;-) So why not Kate Middleton?
My point being: why despise these people and indulge in slagging them because they happen to have been landed by fate in a different position in life than yours? What if YOU had been born in the Royal line? How would you have gone about escaping your rare and unusual fate if you had? Would you have felt consumed with guilt over being a social "parasite"? Would you have run away and joined Al Qaeda, perhaps? Or become a member of the Red Brigades?
You'd obviously like to see the Monarchy abolished. Well, fine, I'm sure the world wouldn't stop turning if it was, and no one is obliged to like the Monarchy...but why all this personal venom toward the individuals who were born into that situation or who married into it? They're just doing the job they were handed by fate, and I wouldn't exactly call it an easy one, because they don't have the luxury most of us do...the sheer joy of our anonymity! The world won't leave them alone. That could be a real pain to have to deal with, and I don't envy them for it. I'd hate to be stuck with a job like that, even if I did get to live in mansions and palaces.
On the other hand, you have these paparrazi, people employed in a crass and exploitive profession, people so well described above as "arse-licking back-stabbing self-obsessed sociopaths..."
Those people are the real parasites, Steve. They live merely to spread rumour and gossip, one of the nastiest things a person can possibly do. They live to embarrass and destroy other people in order to enrich themselves and their employers. They don't do it out of any sense of social service, they do it for their own personal gain. They're like vampires.
If it was your wife or daughter they were sneaking around and taking semi-nude photos of with telefoto lenses, you wouldn't like it one bit. But you're not famous enough, so they probably can't be bothered. Be glad of it.