The king’s presence in parliament was announced by Black Rod. Many years ago I was tickled by the ancient offices with strange names like Portcullis Pursuivant.
Each officer and ceremony continues to represent a tradition or an incident. Human memory was meant to be a continuum, not a digital sequence. The old world maintains this continuum, probably best in Japan.
The Endarkenment broke up the continuum into digital pieces. When each subroutine is done the stack is cleared. France re-analogized in the 1840s in the Foy Rebellion. US may finally be starting to return. We could learn from Canada, which retained a sort of hybrid digital-analog culture, always based firmly on the old English ground.
Each commonwealth country has its own Black Rod, and all of them are instances of the original Black Rod, in the same way that each run of a program is an instance of the original executable, serving the same functions.
When each ritual is performed, it has the same function as the original executable. The function of knocking on the door to admit the king was coded in 1642 when parliament rebelled against a king invading their jurisdiction. The door is slammed in Black Rod’s face, and he humbly requests permission for the king to enter.
After this instance of King entered humbly, he gave a speech with the same analog connectivity. He invoked a medieval sense of commonality among Canadians, paralleling the old English commonality. England was a mix of the indigenous Celts, the invading Krauts (Angles, Saxons, Danes) and the invading French. Peasants spoke a mix of Germanic and French, but the Celt culture never quite died. Canadian leaders speak in alternating English and French, constantly aware of the indigenous influence.
Above all he invoked a national PURPOSE.
LIFE IS PURPOSE.
When people are working together toward a common PURPOSE, ethnic and political divisions lose their importance. Medieval villagers worked and governed together, always focused on the common PURPOSE of growing and processing food.
Before globalism Canada had a strong industrial PURPOSE. It made almost everything internally. Cars, clothing, furniture, appliances. The only weak point was electronics, which never caught on for some reason. Fessenden could have been the Canadian Edison, but he had to work for a living first, and there weren’t any existing electrical firms in Canada. He moved to Massachusetts.
By reconnecting to the ground of analog time, the king smoothed out the missing decades and brought the old PURPOSE back into focus.
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