King Charles the III, the new monarch

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59135132

by dr_dshiv • 4 years ago

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m348e912• 4 years ago

I didn't realize this was an automatic ascension to the throne, I thought he had to be coronated first.

foxyv• 4 years ago

I think there is never NOT a King or Queen, otherwise a lot of the British legal system just doesn't work. Coronation is more of a cementing of the ascension than the ascension itself.

orionion• 4 years ago

He gets to (must) sign an endless stream of documents like Acts of Parliament and Royal Decrees etc.

Under the Constitution, before a bill can enter into law it must be passed by Parliament and then signed by the Monarch and countersigned by the responsible minister or state secretary.

nigerian19812• 4 years ago

Coronation probably won’t take place for months. A coronation is not necessary to become king; Edward VIII reigned as King without ever being crowned.

ilrwbwrkhv• 4 years ago

Nice gig purely on chance. It's time to abolish this whole nonsense.

nigerian19812• 4 years ago

I wonder what kind of odds you can get on him being the last monarch of the United Kingdom.

dr_dshiv4• 4 years ago

Charles authored a pretty fantastic book about philosophy that I highly recommend. I only knew him through tabloids, so didn’t have a good opinion.

It is called “Harmony: a new way of looking at our world” [1] and it is a genuinely novel work that integrates a few thousand years of philosophy. I recently wrote a review paper on the concept of harmony [2]— it was during that work that I came across his.

I’m kind of stoked we will have a philosopher king.

[1] http://library.lol/main/3440AE49041B63EB2CD03AF53201428B

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240587262...

StrictDabbler2• 4 years ago

Yeah, this is a woo-woo look at how the world supposedly works from an enthusiastic supporter of Ayurveda and homeopathic medicine.

The book references sacred geometry. It talks about inscribing an equilateral triangle on Chartres cathedral to draw a diagram of a vulva.

It's full of literal errors about the locations of real world objects and the nature of physics. He references the Gospel of Mary Magdalene and the Emerald Tablet of Hermes.

If "philosopher king" means the old guy in the corner apartment who thinks "everything's quantum, man, it's all about balance and vibrations," then I think we can do without one.

Everything true in the book is just the obvious stuff... don't poison the planet, don't let species go extinct, it's going to be bad. Ok.

It's a stupid, stupid book for shallow thinkers who are impressed by hand-waving gestures at the concept of depth.

dr_dshiv4• 4 years ago

You haven’t read it. You’ve read flame reviews and you are just piling on.

I’ve read it closely and followed the references. Calling it a “stupid, stupid book” betrays your ignorance.

dr_dshiv4• 4 years ago

To give a sense of his intellect and interest, here is a selection from a recent speech to an architectural organization:

“Let me point out that I don’t go around criticizing other people’s private artworks. I may not like some of them very much, but it is their business what they choose to put in their houses. However, as I have said before, architecture and the built environment affect us all. Architecture defines the public realm, and it should help to define us as human beings, and to symbolize the way we look at the world; it affects our psychological well-being, and it can either enhance or detract from a sense of community. As such, we are profoundly influenced by it: by the presence, or absence, of beauty and harmony. I don’t think it is too much to say that beauty and harmony lie at the heart of genuine sustainability. I believe that precisely because the built environment defines the public, or civic, realm it should express itself through the fundamental ingredients that define a genuine civilization – in other words, those civic virtues such as courtesy, consideration and good manners.

It was when I was a teenager in the 1960s that I became profoundly aware of the brutal destruction that was being wrought on so many of our towns and cities, let alone on our countryside, and that much of the urban realm was becoming de-personalized and defaced. The loss was immense, incalculable – an insane “Reformation” that, I believe, went too far, particularly when so much could have been restored, converted or re-used, with a bit of extra thought, rather than knocked down.

I suspect that there are few among you here this evening who would now try to defend such things as the soulless housing estates that characterized that time. Albeit that they were pursued with the best possible motive. One of the problems that I think needs to be acknowledged is that so often we find the kinds of communities that work best cannot be built, due to the specialised and reductive nature of the modern planning process. The design standards imposed by the highway engineering profession, for instance, are particularly damaging to community as they ensure the dominance of the motor vehicle over the pedestrian, even within the neighbourhood. If I may say so, your profession could be of great help with this challenge of converting the planning and engineering professions, as surely you have noticed that the well-proportioned neighbourhoods of the Georgian and Victorian era hold their value far better than the monocultural housing estates of the past 50 years.”

King Charles the III, the new monarch

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