When people look at twentieth century informal monarchies, which are basically any sort of new monarchy trying to be born, they see basically very, very bad results. And so actually, when you look at all across human history, the absolute and normal form of government is monarchy. But it had traditionally been like, oh, this was tried and it doesn't work. So we basically come to this sort of strange reversal in the last 250 years of traditional attitudes in western culture toward these forms of et.

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