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All my rich feelings about this as a millennial woman are from watching Netflix's The Crown.

I think that fact is absolutely incredible, and I'm just noticing how it works, the glimpses of feeling I get as I scroll news feed... images from real photos of the queen seamlessly woven in with flashes of scenes and emotions evoked from watching... Even emotional bits that I KNOW are not legit accurate/real.... My mind treats it all as one category anyway.

The show is an elegant testament to what fiction does, to portray a woman's epic coming of age and into the power and duty of something much bigger than her, across a century.

Our literature just doesn't have that grandness anymore, there are no literary novels by writers today about today that do this. Aesthetics there have changed in their scope somehow.

It's all on our film and tv technology to refresh these themes of responsibility, inner steeliness, honor, sacrifice, respectability etc... to make what's old new again.

I'm certain before the show I cared nothing, and after it, I care a lot.

>>savryn+(OP)
You've learned something from fictional propaganda. Are you now prepared to face the truth of her reign and the immense suffering it caused for millions of people?

>>aa-jv+Sy1
You seem to be saying that if she had not reigned, that suffering would not have occurred. That seems unlikely.

>>roca+KJ1
No, I'm saying the suffering happened because of her reign. She was the direct cause - as a heinously racist, totalitarian monarch sovereign - of endless policies that caused calamity and suffering across the globe.

There are literally millions of people who see her as the criminal she truly was.