Monday, July 08, 2019
Social Darwinism at its best
A writer at the Sounding Line, a less famous competitor of ZeroHedge, has assembled a video showing all the rulers of France from 500 AD to today. The earlier ones are paintings, later are photographs.
One sharp line stands out. The hereditary monarchs are either delicate and sickly or soft and effeminate. In 1300 years, only two of them look like they could throw a punch or tolerate a bit of bad weather: Pepin le Bref and Louis XIV.
The list doesn't depict the Revolutionary leaders, treating them as 'the Directorate'. The pictures resume with Napoleon. In 1873 the first non-hereditary president is Adolphe Thiers. The phenotype instantly changes. Thiers looks like a man who could handle himself, and nearly all of the non-hereditary presidents are equally solid. Macron is the first revert to the delicate monarchical type.
Later constants and variables thought: It's possible that the painting vs photograph line is mainly responsible for the difference. Perhaps royal painters were ordered to show the monarch as holy, which was manifested as delicacy. But if that was true, then the painters of Pepin and Louis violated the order.
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