England's Queen Elizabeth is dead. 96 years old.
She was obviously a very likeable lady. Discreet, polite. I dislike vacuous words which are hard to define, which people usually use because they sound old and educated. "Dignity" is one of those words; you can search this blog and you'll probably never see me use that word. But if someone could be described as "dignified" Queen Elizabeth II was one of those. May she rest in peace.
It was just very hard to dislike that lady, as a person. The people who did or today claim to have done are without exception very bad people. The usual suspects, really.
Good or bad she was just not a very interesting person, was she? Again everyone is today writing pieces qualifying her and her reign, which I find rather unfair. She was a woman! What did you expect? Yeah sure, she reigned over the complete destruction of the British Empire and unprecedented decay of the British nation. The death of it, really. The physical death of the nation; the stock of the British race is gone, probably forever. On that note, sure, she was the worst monarch ever. Ye shall know them by their fruits.
But was it her fruits? Look at that nice lady, how could she have any fruits at all? She's a woman, women have generally no agency, how can you blame her for all that? Her office had no power, by law, but even if it had, she was still an unremarkable woman. The only responsibility we could ask her is about her children. Her own children, which… lol. Well OK, those aren't too good either. But hey at least she had a bunch of them.
Tucker Carlson had a rather moving video on the Queen's death; which turned into nostalgia about the British Empire. The most benign empire that human history has seen and will ever see, as he put it.
Well yes, hopefully it won't happen again. I mean, why would that be the case? Why would it be that no future empire will ever be as benign as the British Empire was? Surely the British Empire was very successful. We learn from past successes, there surely is much to learn from British imperialism. But I agree, future empires won't learn from it's benignness. Because that was it's undoing, the cause of it's ultimate failure, and the ultimate destruction of the British nation itself.
Future historians, if humanity is to get much further, will qualify past events by their contribution to human advancement. That means ultimately, their contribution to eugenics, their contribution to the improvement of the human genetic stock, most importantly its cognitive ability. What the Benign British Empire ultimately left to the world was the multiplication of the human population of black Africa and the Indian subcontinent. Hundreds of millions of people there. People who are incapable of doing anything of remark. Barely able to feed themselves. All for what? So that Tucker Carlson could brag about it to his Boomer American audience. "See how benign our cousins were".
No, buddy. All the problems that your country has right now, which are exactly due to the proliferation of the wrong sort of people, can be quite directly tracked to the British Empire, or at least the mindset that they created and popularized, which became popular thanks to the very success of the empire. That's what you get when your rulers are "benign". Multiplication of bad people.
It's sad because of course some British did understand that; in point of fact they very much discovered the notion of eugenics. And some of them even understood what their Empire had to do in order to prosper. See things like this map 
. Some people quite obviously got it. And yet, they couldn't do what had to be done. And now their home government looks like this. 
That said, the Bombay train station really is nice. One does hope that the empires of the future build more stuff like it. But not out of the goodness of their heart. But because they enjoy making their possessions more beautiful.
