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So, adding an update. It’s now 10 days later and the Queen’s funeral is on television as I type this. Whilst I still think she did a good job, it was just that: a job. The last ten days have been filled with incessant and insufferable media brainwashing, ceremonies which look like cosplays, protestors being arrested on flimsy charges, a stupid queue which could have been eliminated by technology and just general nonsense. It all feels very North Korean.

The whole experience has knocked me off the fence and placed me firmly in the republic camp. It has solidified my resolve to leave the UK and start afresh somewhere else which aligns with my philosophical values. I am of the belief that the UK (or more specifically England, I think Scotland and Northern Ireland might break free of this mess soon, not as sure on Wales) is so fixated on the past that it is going to end up eating itself, especially with the technology that’s coming down the pipeline. The mindset that allows this broken system to continue (group think, fixation on the past) is fundamentally opposed to that which technology represents (individual thought, focus on the future) on a deep, deep level. You’re beginning to see it now with stuff like Rees-Mogg’s ridiculous attempts to bring back imperial measurements. Change is the only constant in life. Trying to resist it can only end in tears as history has shown time and time again. Unfortunately, they seem to be the only parts of history royalists want to overlook.