On 6 May, a 74-year-old British man formally assumed a job promised to him when he was born—a strange event by itself in a country with record joblessness and a severe cost-of-living crisis. But the coronation of King Charles III, one of the world’s richest men, was funded by the taxpayer—estimates ran over $100 million—and commemorated with a national holiday. Moreover, as the king received the sovereign’s orb, sceptre and coronation ring, and was anointed with oil sacralized in Jerusalem, his subjects around the UK and abroad were invited to swear allegiance to his majesty, heirs and successors according to law, “So help me God.
“The absurdity… can be total. It appears to ridicule analysis. It takes the onlooker beyond anger and despair to neutrality. These words by V.S. Naipaul, originally used for post-colonial India and paraphrased slightly, apply today to post-imperial Britain, arguably also a deeply “wounded civilization that is ruled by “ritual and myth and seems “incapable of lasting reform, or of a correct interpretation of the new world.
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