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Ursula LeGuin puts the publishers in their place
(lemmy.world)
Not really a meme, I know, but I thought this was amazing and worth sharing and I didn't know where else to share it on Lemmy.
Ursula LeGuin was an incredible person and, although she did live a long life, her death was still a huge loss.
To me that seems like a bold claim considering "the divine right of kings" has not been successfully resisted nor was it escaped from. Monarchies still exist on every continent, people of royalty still get more rights and better treatment than others, once-royal families still possess loads of wealth, still rule countries in high political positions, still own many companies and other wealth generating assets. Humans have gained unfair advantages due to their lineage for thousands if not tens of thousands of years and I highly doubt that this will change massively in the next thousand years.
Regardless, it still sounds like a really nice speech though.
Sorry, but where are the monarch in the American Continent? And I mean from the north of Canada to the South Of Chile.
Where are they?
The monarchy of England is still in charge of Canada.
While true on paper, they don't have any actual power here.
Then why do you keep them around?
Inertia.
Also while a wealthy family enterprise, they neither
It's actually a huge step down from the kind of power royalty used to enjoy.