We are being sold pap, mindless trivia that enhances other people's lives, no wonder there exists people in society that are not happy with their lot, for the media is creating the divide a divide that serves them and those that depend on them, those in the public eye.
But perhaps we don't get it, perhaps we feel our lives are so empty unless we tune in to what the celebrities are doing, we are the masters of our own happiness, so why promote our own unhappiness by dreaming of the world lead by others, a false world that the media can turn on and off at will. Who wants to be a performing monkey dancing to the media's tune?
As to royalty, they once ruled he land, it was them that held the power, but as society has moved on, for them to stay in the lap of luxury they are used to, they must do the celebrity thing, dance to the media tune else we forget them or wonder what they are really worth to us and they know it.
So, what's freedom really, well in this day and age perhaps throwing away the media saddle is a start to finding our own lives.
Ask yourself, is life any better for learning about a bunch of idiots burning a bunch of poppies or is it the poppies are the war dead, do we need a symbol to remember them , or are we capable of doing that in our hearts already. Ignore the insult for it is not an insult unless one makes it so and so perpetuates the cancer that is destroying society.