Theocracy, Monarchy and Aristocracy group

A monarchy is a form of government in which supreme power is absolutely or nominally lodged in an individual, who is the head of state, often for life or until abdication. A monarch is chosen by god to uphold the highest ideals for humanity, nominally it referred to as the doctrine of the divine right of kings. With the church and state (or the spiritual and warrior caste) co-existing or sometimes opposing each other. Those who serve the monarch perceive the world from a spiritual perspective, and reject a purely materialist interpretation. Godless intellectuals rationalize actions based on self-interest & baser instincts like egotism and vanity, which at best serve utilitarianism rather than higher ideals that impose duties, responsibilities, enlighten, guide, unite and restrain parasitical and deviant behaviors. This group is for those interested in Theocracy & the transformation society underwent in the Enlightenment. Neoreactionaries are most welcome.

The most common form of monarchy is Absolute Monarchy during the 14th century onwards and in Eastern societies like Persia & Egypt. Prior to this the Early and High Middle Ages where concilliar elected/hereditary monarchy's or oligarchy under feudalism. The Grand lords had the exclusive right to raise taxes or army's.

This began to change between Philippe II and Philippe IV:

1- Nobles where disallowed from forming private armies. The Templars in particular would not be able to use their banking system to extort money from pilgrims.
2- The subjects were allowed to protest against a landlords decision by appealing to the King's Justice.
3- The Pope lost most of his power, including the ability to protect the Templars.
4- France's unity and national identity developed greatly so as to create the modern conception of nationality and statehood. Essentially Absolute Monarchy's removed anti-sovereign rule by foreign powers which was the Church led by a Pope in this case (which led to Lords of Potiou to lead a insurrection against Loiu IX).
5- Allowed the Monarch to stamp out corruption effectively within the political system, since all nobles now had to answer to one supreme authority that is a Absolute Monarch.

Under constitutional Monarchy, the King or Queen is able to remove the prime minister or regent from power by royal prerogative or decree if he ever tries to overturn the electoral system or constitution but their role as monarch becomes mostly symbolic and it eventually becomes rule by capitalist oligarchy's.

While these where clearly advantages, the disadvantage became that the Absolute Monarch had the power to wield a virtue, chivalry and imperialism even when it is hated, people must follow his dictates or fiat. But the point is, that even when people hated the decision, it still seemed to follow some higher ideal, a spiritual worldview that all that sentient, i.e. 'thinking' beings have, we all have a mind and spirit and therefore a higher purpose imbued in our nature. Other reasons is that maintaining the land of Monarchy's is costly and they are not subject to taxes, instead only commoners have to pay land taxes.

Monarchism is really about morality, ethics, shared identity, and Chivalry, secondly it is about early Christianity, thirdly a Latin language and fourthly its about the laws of nature. A community of those who show up when violence erupts to fight with justice and honor (Chivalry working definition).

The function of monarchy:
1. Monarchy is by its nature dissociated from party rule. Democracy by its nature is party rule.
2. The Monarch is the political and social head of the nation.
3. Even a monarch of mediocre talents and natural gifts has the advantage of having received an education for his profession.
4. Monarch has skin in the game, because his progeny will live in the society long after he's gone in the society and he will become wealthy and powerful if the society has strength, status, and reputation. He wants to commit to actions that have the best chance of stability and order, and have honor and justice in his rule because his interests and the people's interests are aligned. In a assembly or democracy they are not aligned.
5. Assemblies in a democracy is vulnerable to much greater amount of flatterers, who sometimes seek personal interests. Monarchy has fewer people to seek counsel of and therefore has much fewer flatterers.
6. Because of the nature of man are ambitious and unjust, there are many lord protectors who jockey for status. In a assembly or democracy it is like having a permanent infant king, where the number of permanent would be lord protectors are much larger in number.

The main and useful readings:
* Patriarcha or the Natural Power of Kings - by Robert Filmer
* The Divine Right of Kings - by John Neville Figgis
* Liberty or Equality - by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
* The Menace of the Herd - by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
* The Ides: Caesar's Murder and the War for Rome - by Stephen Dando-Collins,
* Julius Caesar: The Pursuit of Power - by Bradford,
* Germany From Napoleon to Bismark - by Nipperdey,
* Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites - by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
* Strangers Within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire - by Bernard Bailyn
* The Might of the West - by Lawrence Brown
* The Hour of Decision - by Oswald Spengler
* The Revolt of the Masses - by José Ortega y Gasset
* The Menace of the Underman - by Lothrop Stoddard

* Discussions about Aristocracy: Reddit.com

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