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Retrospective Rumours Part Six: The Holy Kingdom

Perry’s Retrospective Rumors: Part Six - The Holy Kingdom

Note: Some of the following is a fictional and romanticized version of true accounts and should not be held to historical scrutiny.

It’s a funny thing, devotion. those who draw their belief in the physical world find power in the certainty of this. People such as the Swedenborg and Mesmer developed the system we now know as spiritualism in the mid-17th century. The assertion therefore in the absolute divinity of a single King these days meets with that of ludicrous condemnation and disgust. Though towards the late 19th century others like Carl Jung and Durkheim, a psychologist and sociologist respectively, laboured long to try to convince people that the world should be viewed from a purely scientific basis. For instance, such scholarship as has been seen recently as luminaries bustle for recognition against each other.

Thomas Moore, just before his execution on grounds of treason wrote to his daughter of his reservations on the divinity of a single King. “I staunchly refuse to pledge any oath to her authority. Nor indeed to recognize the so called divine right of King Henry himself to hold the throne in such a fashion. His split from Rome is blasphemous at best and devilry at worst. As a consequence of such I must die tomorrow. Though I consider myself innocent of the crimes of which I have been accused it is the judgment of my King and therefore God that I die upon Tower Hill. Be true to your King despite his insistence on being the supreme head of a new English Church. I love you both with all my heart.” Such were the last words of a man who looked a self-appointed God in the face and told him to go to hell.

There are a number of the population that still do see the Royal Family as an institution of adoration even in 2018. This despite the assertion that they bring in much needed revenues in tourism having been debunked this outlook is still maintained. Brand Finance seems to recon that the Royal Family's net worth to the economy is approximately £1.155 billion in 2018.

The flow of velvet and gold created a swishing and sweeping air of authoritive tumult Thomas strode across the cell in the turret of the Tower. With a deep sigh at his impending inevitability he drew up his strength and seated himself on the stool by the slight window. Allowed to draw up a final note to his children. It was the 6th of July 1535 and Thomas Moore took up his quill and rested the parchment on the alcove before him; a little unsteadily he began to write the previous note.

Of course we don‘t have to worry about being decapitated if we worship the wrong deity today so that’s a bonus. August 2017 and Prince Phillip, Duke of Edenborough bowed out of public duties as he decided to end his official obligations to our crown. At 96 and sporting a bowler hat and raincoat he felt it necessary to mark the occasion by signing out at Buckingham palace to a round of “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow”. Interesting.

Further this contribution is scowled upon by the anti-Royalists of the nation as it presents a disparagement between the amount it costs to maintain them. It is estimated that Sovereign Grant, security and maintenance of palaces, are netted off against sources of income including the uplift to the tourism, all generated by the Crown Estate. Basically there not worth the bother in some quarters of our great nation. This might be true. Though what would we become without our national identity? Some might say we’d be phenomenally better off. Financially speaking they’d be right.

Even the much vaunted theories of inbreeding, treason and paedophilia are not enough to deter many from advocating a system of absolute Monarchic Meritocracy. Faith is the answer I think. Faith and hope. These two underestimated truths, excestencial or not, are the fundamental basis upon which all life is founded. We all have faith and are religious about something whether we like it or not. It is possible to be religious about not being religious for example. Very cold attitude but then the ways in which human relations within grief have evolved are cold. The other side of the equation is just as irrational as the practical. Wouldn’t it be nice to be certain of your place in life?

Much has been written and theorised on theories of the existence of what we call the afterlife; great scholars and thinkers have scribbled late into the evening and night to illuminate the subject. While both scholars and thinkers are very much of the same mind on some topics they can be drawn into two distinct categories on others. For example, such thinkers tend to be academics of a varied sort who labour to distinguish life as a functional and distinct plain in which matter interacts with its brother and creates bigger and better matter, while doers on the other hand tend to be of a slightly different order.

Wouldn’t it be sweet to wake up in the morning and know what you believed was right and true beyond all doubt and the variations of opinion in the world, which create so much discrepancy and argument, were a blasphemy to human thought. Your truth was the correct one and there was no variation. It would also allow the boon of always having fodder in your material bank for writing purposes. Of course we do not have to worry about being decapitated if we worship the wrong deity today so that’s a bonus, but there is still a stanch need for identifiable origins to validate our historical perspective on life. As such some are of the opinion that Royalty is needed in England today. Many are in agreement with that fact although they do concede that their income should be scrutinished and capped. It is to be noted despite this that the man in the street do find themselves on the end of the serpent’s tooth if they are wearing last year’s wardrobe. I personally prefer looking like I stepped out of 2009 than losing my ability to throw up at the sight of today’s equivalent of Sir Moore. A title that Messer’s Trump and May have to contend with, although they seem to do it with alarming alacrity. Perhaps one’s place in life depends on one’s perspective towards it. Remembrance perpetuates through skin and bone, flowing through clan, families and home.

My name will die with the earth.

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· The Tudors, Michael Hurst, Johnathan Rys Myers, Jeremy Northiam, Showtime, April 2007

· The Tower Of London, UNESLO, May 24 2013

· The World Within – CG Jung – In His Own Words, Psychology Library, Feb 1 2017

· Sociology - Emile Durkheim, Gringa Video Audio, May 1 2015

· The Royal Wedding Ceremony At Westminster Abby, The Royal Family, April 29 2017

· Royal Family of the Beast, Shocking Look into the Antichrist Bloodline, John 3:16, Vid Ministry, June 3 2018

· The Tower of London Documentary, Doc Spot, Feb 24 2018

· Prince Phillip Carries Out Last Formal Engagement, BBC News, August 2 2017

· End The Monarchy Now! For The Baby! Russel Brand, The Trews, Feb 10 2014

· Crown Estate Hits Record Profits with Queen Set To Benefit, Bloomberg, 7 July 2011

· Political Reasons Why Monarchy Is Good, Frith Mister, June 2 2017

· Engineering Miscode Structures, With Distinct Dynamic Implications, New Journal Of Physics, December 11 2012

· Service Charge, Beaton Edwards, January 12 2011

· Trump and May Hold Press Conference, Sky News, July 13 2008

Indo-European Origen, CroPedroForever, August 24 2012

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Retrospective Rumours Part Five: The Reforms of a King

Perry’s Retrospective Rumors: S2E5 - The Reforms of a King

Note: Some of the following is a fictional and romanticized version of true accounts and should not be held to historical scrutiny.

As I reflect on the massive amount of time I have devoted in the past when a Charity Shop Manager I am led to wonder about the amount of appreciation and respect that is currently held for our beloved institutions by the Charity Commission. The word charity not only relates to charity shops but to the half way houses, rehabilitation centers and help groups; the day centers organizational care establishments and mental health in general. Now the Charity Commission isn’t responsible for all of these things of course but the sociological view of them covers so many bases its unreal today. There is as much dust under the Charity Commissions moldy carpet as there ever was. Still, perhaps we should be grateful, for we don’t see the sumptuous, carpet, dripping with neglect and entropy, at the back of the shop. Moreover, in this age of compact and marketed paranoia, the dust has turned to ashes and the residue has been diligently wrapped in red tape, thrown away by a loving beaurucratic.

Arthur Wesley, Duke of Wellington was temporary priminister when the First Reform took place and looked tentatively into the way in which the unfortunate members of society are treated; walked. It was 1832 and the noise from the protestations outside 10 Downing Street swamped his ears. The National Political Union had so much to say about the dissolution of Rotten Boroughs that it was overwhelming. Certainly he couldn’t cope with the mess that he felt Lord Charles Grey had left him when Arthur took over office. The First and Second Reforms had been a total failure as far as opposition was concerned. By Royal decree his efforts to subjugate the opponents of parliamentary reform were causing so much rioting and rise in the Chartist revolution that his time in office was now at a close. Perhaps that was for the best.

Cecil Jackson-Cole was instrumental in setting up some of the first charity shops that focused on the poor and needy. Oxfam was one of his greatest achievements. Since the House of Commons Charity Bill that went through on the 13th of July 2006, and the Health and Safety Programme of 2007 things for our altruistic friends have become increasingly more difficult. Heartless corporations and groping institutional departments sweep the understanding nature of our compassion like great dustpans and we only have to look at the recent mind numbing, sumptuously absurd behavior of charity Green Crescent Bangladesh UK who were only recently accused of funding terrorist activity in 2017 to see the corruption oozing from such institutions.

How far exactly have we come since the Third Reform Act was instituted by Royal decree in 1832? Work Houses continued to flourish at that time and the efforts of the reinstated priminister, Lord Grey were in comparative vein. As a consequence, and Lord Arthur Wellingtons reputation took a vital hit until he was called back again to parliament after his valor in France some years later. As far as the poor of the age were concerned little had changed. They all still toiled in the fields and brick yards and their conditions were little amended. Most of the changes instituted focused on the wealthy and middle cases, which were now divided between the working classes even more than before.

In the modern age of charitable life Andrew Hind, Chief Executive of the Charity Commission said; "We are working with relevant law enforcement and other agencies to investigate the allegation that terrorist activity is connected with the charity. The matter is of serious concern to us, and we are taking this action given the gravity of the matter, the public interest and the need to protect charity work and funds.” Have we seen anything resolved from this?

Certainly any such resolution is comparable to the days when the Whigs won over the common man as usual. Jewish emancipation was on the rise in the 1800’s and the third reform instituted the first protestations toward the Women’s right to vote. The Chartist movement was on the rise and it led to the instigation of the poor being looked at with greater urgency. Ultimately the Great Reform Act was the first port of call in the rise of modern democracy. Charity shops were not set up in their current form until the late 1940’s and no one batted an eye lid at the way in which poor houses were contemptuously taking advantage of the reserve labour force available.

However, despite the numerous legislations winding themselves around contemporary charities, like unstoppable growth inhibitors, high street outlets seem to be thriving. For instance, Government officials, apparently, are failing to stop the bulging and swelling of charity shops taking over the center of Welshpool it was claimed even today. The irate members of the local council are crying that high streets all over the country are being overwhelmed with charity shops taking advantage of rate relief and pushing away local traders. Apparently, ‘Charity shops get 80 per cent rate relief” so when it comes to paying rent they can afford to pay more.” It is unfortunate also that public awareness of the sort of wealth that flows in and out of philanthropic emporiums is also growing.

The number of people choosing to shop at village charity shops is, as a result, decreasing from the rate of several years ago. This last might be indicated by the fact that last year’s figures on the Charity 250 Index went down by 3.74 %; a disappointing realization since the average for such is 7.7 % per annum. Are we to blame for not giving, or are` the charities to blame for not asking nicely enough, and taking without saying thank you? Probably a bit of both. The statistics are not doing the running of outlets many favour. Much has to be spent on badly judged and constraining regulations that seem to change every day between brunch and teatime. Compliance with the laws we all must abide has become so awkward that it is now the case that not more than twelve people are allowed in a shop at any one time. This situation, exacerbated by the new Anti-Ageism Legislation that was being inserted into the workplace in 2006, with a painful twist, that is not being received at all well by managers and trustees.

There is of course the insistence that Quality Control must have their say. Is it not enough that our daily lives are dictated to by these anal pen pushers, we now have to accept that they have their hands all over our charitable institutions? The fractured result of an attempted free democracy that was instated by the Great Reform Act? All these considerations shops seem to be required to ply such a large amount of their income into complying with these demands that even the larger chains are struggling to break even. Consequently, more than 40 % of their income seems to be going into this and the purpose for which they exist is sidelined. This excessively large governmental intervention, fairly self-evidently, has been occurring for so long now that the public at large are losing confidence that their money is going where it is needed. As a result, the smaller charities are losing the war on both sides.

The theory is underlined by the fact that the prices at these establishments have risen so noticeably. A very fine pair of jeans can be found in many large supermarket chains for two pounds fifty, and similarly in other accessible outlets. Whereas an almost identical pair of accoutrements are prodded every day in your local charity store, at four pounds fifty. Parochial Charity Shops today can be perceived as a shattering micro empire within the shattered empire of our nation. If the governing body of the charity commission were a leadership party they would have no voters, excepting the small majority clinging to an old and struggling sweater.

It seems that the, remaining, majority of their wealth comes from self-important middle classes, who seem to think that just because they deliver a few flyers it somehow gives them the right to feel good about themselves. Perhaps the answer to all the questions concerning the validity of charity shops in our society today lies not in the high street at all but further afield. It is with the suburban, or even the parochial, that the future of the market lies. It is one of the Charity Commissions top priorities, in the legislations of 2006, that an outlet is to support, and build, or at least contribute towards, a common trust with the community.

As such we find that it is not to the town shops that we find this type of understanding and communal spirit but the smaller shops beyond. Having managed such a shop, myself for the last year, (almost on an everyday basis), I find myself seeing the reason in this school of thought. Charity shops in small village environments tend to receive a higher daily dividend than those in the town because their prices tend to be substantially lower and therefore draw in more custom.

Perhaps on that basis we should all be looking for quantity in our browsing and purchasing and not quality. To further the analogy, I shall be bold and crass enough to say, `it’s not what you’ve got, it’s where you put it. With the highly unlikely hope that charity shops will only extend their baleful influence within the confines of villages and small towns it might even be possible that our landscape is not so blighted after all and that the small efforts put in by Arthur Wesley, Duke of Wellington were not so much in vein as an effort made by an institutionalized soldier in a patriarchal government where he possibly shouldn’t have been. Who’s to say? Reform and protestation on a social scale are, and continue to be, ugly stains resulting in corruption and negligence. Sweeping under the table those that we don’t want to see. Segregation and Fragmentation on an unprecedented scale perhaps? Hearts and souls reside therein. Solitary existence grinds to a halt, without our bearers to help us watch out;

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· Katherine House – Charity Shops, Oct 23 2014

· Wellington – The Iron Duke, BBC, May 15 2017, Richard Holmes

· Mould and Mildew Under The Carpet, Michael Dayton, Sept 13 2018

· Chartists Hetonsgate TRMT Tour, Three Rivers Museum, Feb 1 2016

· How Corporations Became So Powerful, Thought Monster, Feb 23 2015

· Cecil Jackson Cole, Andrews Charitable Trust, Oct 14 2016

· Green Creasant Trust Annual Dinner, May 15 2018

· The Children Who Built Victorian Britain, Documentary Workhouse, Dec 24 2016

· Charity Commission-Safeguarding, Feb 6 2015

· LSE Events, Andrew Holdene, The Productivity Puzzle, Mar 23 2017

· How The Suffragettes Won British Women The Vote, 100 Years Of Women’s Movement, BBC Teach, Jun 9 2016

· Jewish Emancipation and Anti-Semitism Video Project, Feb 20 2017

· Seeding Root Growth Inhibitors Ohio Stat University, April 1 2014

· There is Only One Way Out Of Poverty, Progell, Mar 13 217

· The Charity Commission Trust Welcome Pack, Jul 31 2018

· What Is Discrimination? Equality And Human Rights Commission, 29 May 2018

· Reform Act Of 1832, Richard Rosivouch, Jan 30 2013

· Late 1990’s Tesco Sells Levi Jeans, Supermarket, UK Active Research The Kino Library, Jul 2014

· Come Thrift with Us, Aug 1 2018

· An Introduction To Charity Legislation, Institute Of Fundraising, Feb 3 2012

· Urban Revitalisation For All Webinar, Island Press, Jul 2 2018

· Fragmentation And Polarisation Of European Politics, Sarah De Hounge, University Of Amsterdam, Social Science Research, Jan 23 2018

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Perry's Retrospective Rumours: Fear Of The Ptolemy’s

Fear; and the anxiety, along with agitation, that builds it, is everywhere. That fear breeds loneliness too. There is a theory that that loneliness contributes to the need to survive. [i] Elena Blanco-Suarez Ph.D. states, 'The brain will push the lonely individual to find someone to interact with.' This opinion continues to be reinforced in respect of fear by [ii]Douglas La Bier Ph.D. who asserts, 'Fear influences many things including career dilemmas, conflicts around personal values, and problems in intimate relationships'. Allegiances are formed, and in turn relationships of dependence, of which it can be said that all emotional attachments are based. All through the ones desperate fear of being alone.

It is well known that such a fear drives the individual to seek high status through insecurity. To maintain such a status, the thousands of dictators, (I use the word in its original context), and rulers believed it was necessary to keep a consistency through bloodline. The Romans settled on keeping the name 'Caesar' to indicate Imperial rule in subsequent Emperors. The ancient Egyptians went one step further, as incest was their solution. The Ptolemy dynasty, who ruled approximately 1,500 years ago in fact originally came from Greece, bringing the idea with them. Ancient Greeks were a schizoid bunch at the best of times. [iii]Psychologist Dr Hal Herzog has said, 'Forcing a woman burdened with the psychological scars of incest to bear a child has a roughly 50:50 chance of having mental disabilities.'

Those mental scars, today would be called psychopathic and schizophrenic. Ptolemy XIII inherited a House of Memories in 48 BC. An Egyptian empire that was soiled by the ambitions of his grate uncle, Ptolemy XI. Killed by the Romans in the streets, who had ambitions to rule had threatened Rome’s growing might by inciting insurrection in the people of his lands. That is not to say that his successor was much better. Inheriting the house of memories herself, a third century chronicler described Cleopatra VII as the woman [iv]“who destroyed the Egyptian monarchy’. She grew up amid unsurpassed luxury, to inherit a kingdom in decline. Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt for twenty-two years during which the kingdom rose and declined with alarming alacrity. It was because of her incessant need to feel wanted and fear of being alone; together with a desire to refound the Egyptian Empire from the ashes in which she found it that anxiety got the better of her. She was eighteen, an orphan and an exile, having been usurped by her brother, who had foiled her rebellion to take over the kingdom herself. This was not ambition but a desire to supplement her loneliness with power it might be said.

When the young Ptolemy XIII decided to kill Pompey Magnus, who was an adversary to the ambitions of Caesar, he invited Cleopatra to make a gambit back to Alexandria to make an ally to Rome and overthrow her brother. Yet another example of psychological insecurity that bordered on depression and manic sibling rivalry. [v]’Dead men don’t bite’ Ptolemy’s advisers declared when his house guards dispatched Pompey. Of course Caesar was disgusted which made him vulnerable to manipulation and his honourable inclinations kicked in. Even if he was to go back to Rome he did not have the right hat on. Rather than be treated as a triumphant victor of his campaigns in Gaul he would have been treated as a criminal. Taking power into his own hands, Caesar had decided to requisition an army of Roman soldiers and go against the wishes of the Republic Senate and not come home when recalled. Consequently, he did not have a hat befitting his status but one he wore of his own volition. Circumstances that are not dissimilar to today through beaurucratic ignorance some might say. Just recently a young girl has been denied access back into the UK as her passport had digital ears on the picture. A holiday to Greece turned into a farce when the officers at Heathrow declared she could not re-enter the country. The Home Office declared that, [vi]‘As a general rule, passport photos should be free of any digital enhancements, including but not limited to dog ears, bunny ears, little tweedy birds, heavily pixelated sunglasses and spiffs, and large expanded eyes that contrary to popular belief don’t actually make you look any fitter.’ Such comparisons do tend to be fatuous but do tend to display how paranoid and fearful we can still be, not to mention insecure in regard to territorial authority.

Rolled up in a linen rug, Cleopatra was famously smuggled into the rooms she had formally occupied in Alexandria by her servant, Apollodorus. The room in which Caesar now occupied was infiltrated by a desperate Queen. Desperate for what one wonders? Obviously there was a good deal of political manuvering at stake but what was behind such manuvering? One can only speculate. Gently sailing up the Nile into Alexandria’s eastern harbour, it might be conjectured that Ptolemy the XIII’s sibling was after something more than simple power grabbing. Of course the idea that romance or romantic love had much to do with it is clearly absurdly idealistic; such virtues were unknown to the aristocracy of the day. To take such risks was indeed a sign that we are force to look at the schizophrenic motivations of her actions with reference to her brother’s ruler ship. It has been postulated that, [vii]‘family members struggle with feelings of anxiety, powerlessness and grief. Consequently, creating criminal constructs for themselves feeling socially isolated’. Is this the results of those symptoms that incited Cleopatra to rebel against her brother and husband in such a way?

It was 48 BC and Caesar found Cleopatra akin to a blood ration almost as she stood at his bedside in her old rooms. Somewhat resounding in the links to Alexandra the Great, the Queen proffered herself to the Roman General that night. Perhaps she was swapping one shadowy figure of paternity for another. Continuing the bloodline in a new soul. The soul of the Roman people? Whilst exhibiting a highly sophisticated civilisation that could boost the powers of Italy, both intellectually and strategically, Caesar found the prospect a profound opportunity. His inherent leanings towards schizophrenia might have been exacerbated from a rejection from his Roman roots. This could have culminated in a fractured emotional structure such as, [viii]‘emotional problems that share a genetic overlap with schizophrenia and MDD through a genetic risk that impacts the genetic architecture’. In essence he had a fractured and alienated personality at that time of his life that took advantage of the Egyptian Queen insecurities’, one might say. This grief and stress could have been a contributing cause of his recurrent epilepsy.

It was the contemporary philosopher Plutarch who noted the inconsistencies in this arrangement. He is known to have said that Cleopatra’s beauty and allure, [ix]‘was not in itself so remarkable that none could be compared with her, or that no one could see her without being struck by it.’ It is probable that her much vaunted beauty was not all that it maintained to be. Such inconsistencies in history make us jump to the conclusion that the Greek line in her forced the girl to resort to the dominant asset of a middle eastern woman and rely on her charm and grace rather than natural beauty. It was never entirely clear who seduced whom but it was not long that year when Caesar cast Cleopatra’s sister, Arsinoe, and brother/husband, Ptolemy XIII, out of the land to live on the remote island of Cyprus on seclusion. Taking them out of the picture, soon after a son was born to the warrior’s pride. Cesarion. A game changer. The House of Memories corrupted bloodline had now been passed onto a youngster who had little idea of the fates that awaited him in that role. The link between Roman and Egyptian trade and military arsenals was secure. In 49 BC, Caesar left for Rome where he had to clean up the mess of the Senate. Cleopatra was alone once again. Though the instinct to survive kicked in and she continued the work to unite her people and was also free of conspirator family members to do so. This abandonment reflects the consistency of the currents that fracture a military personality such as Caesars. It has been said that once a military personality gets a taste of victory they take that conquest and cast it into a fractured personality. The General had done this many times before when on campaign, though this time it affected not an Empire but a single woman in extraordinary ways. The major depression instigated by his absence was one such. Though she focused on her new Kingdom and the benefits of uniting a single Egypt. For instance, [x]‘wilful symptom exaggeration may elicit spurious actions, like when patients are pursuing a hidden agenda’. A hidden agenda was certainly true of the 20-year-old.

Certainly she was affected quite severely by Caesars death in 53 BC. It fractured the alliance that had been forged between the two and the Queens phycology quite detrimentally. Cicero describes the scene in the Senate of Rome as a massacre in which the senators stabbed the newly established dictator repeatedly, [xi]“from one to another of them with furious cries like a wild beast.” Cleopatra was certainly responsible for Caesars death by alienating him form the Roman people. Through all this there as light at the end of an illuminatingly pathological tunnel. Caesars heir, and nephew, Octavian, had sent the rouge Marshall, Marcus Aurelius’ Anthony, to negotiate terms with the Queen. As a client queen, as a friend and ally of Rome, she had to get this new interloper onside. It is always interesting that swapping one overload for another tends to press, yet again towards a very unstable personality. Despite her grief she also had little choice but to cultivate and mollify Mark Antony. Feeling, [xii]‘inadequate and intimidated in her role as matriarch, this can affect their life course and identity’. Perhaps this can be applied to the sickly Cleopatra here? Despite all this repression the powerful girl perused her course in grabbing at the next available person that could unify her ambitions, and her personal validification.

In a world today that is dominated by romantically salacious unions such as the weddings of Royals likes the recent York unions and that of Prince William and Kate, not to mention Harry and Markel, it is difficult to relate to such pairings as necessary through political and social machinations. Perhaps if we look at something closer to the truth we might be able to understand the necessity for manipulation and conquest? Speaking at the Institute for Government recently the senior official for tax regulation expressed concerns for his personal safety in regard to Brexit and the changes that would occur in the financial world accordingly. He said there are, [xiii]‘very significant personal consequences. We have had to literally change how I travel and what my personal security is. We have had two death threats investigated by the Metropolitan police for speaking truth unto power about Brexit’. If we examine this statement perhaps it is possible to see how Cleopatra felt at this time as a result of Caesars death. Hs had been made her vulnerable and in danger for her life as a result of the catastrophe. In desperation Cleopatra made Cesarion her co – regent and Anthony took note of her sisters’ recent rebellion and ordered Arsinoe killed at a prominent Temple in the land. Having secured yet another alliance which was dubious in the extreme considering her psychological state Cleopatra could in this instance be considered stretching the social validity of her abilities to the point of madness. A study of Schmidt Mast and Hall[xiv] found that ‘women recall the appearance of others better than men do. In France, firefighters are perceived in a highly positive way by people and the [xv]population and it was found that with the girls, a fireman is associated with phantasm and high level of sex-appeal’. This though is perhaps a simplistic view of her motivation?

Anthony, though, was now dressing and deporting himself like an Egyptian, even partaking in cultural and social activities if one. This despite the fact that by 50 BC his former wife/partner ha had a child by him. Such was the influence of, what some might say, was a psychotic Queen of Egypt. Despite her attempts to align herself with King Herod of Jerusalem her influence over Anthony was dubious and dangerous. It was only by 34 BC that the tenuous influence of the Queen had caught Anthony in a web of his vulnerable military madness. Now at the side of his new mistress, the Roman soldier was at the side of the Queen, with their children at the foot of their throne room. She had become the [xvi]‘Queen of Kings’ as a military themed celebration and procession had validities.

What self-respecting Roman would prefer [xvii]’invidious wealth, the lust for despotism to stable and solid glory’ asked Cicero. Today we have Cambridge students lobbying to prevent the November celebrations pertaining to the armistice of the first world war. It was only yesterday that such a scene could not be conceivable. In ancient times it was absurd. Glory and victory were all in Roman eyes under usual circumstances. In 2018, [xviii]‘Cambridge University’s Student Union (CUSU) has voted down a motion to promote Remembrance Sunday amid fears about the “glorification” of conflict’. Had the physiological inconsistencies of Ptolemy XII affected Cleopatra’s reasoning in subjugation Anthony to ‘going native’? He was even drinking to such large extent that it became almost unbearable to behold. [xix]‘Compared to civilians it is said, ‘those who have served in the military are almost twice as likely to suffer from alcohol problems, with 67% of men classifying as vulnerable to it’.

It was on July 31st that Octavian Caesar decided, in his wisdom, to carry out one last attack on the capital of Alexandria. Sensing that this was the possible case, as her paranoid Ptolemy mind dictated Cleopatra foresaw this eventuality and, having made Cesarion pharaoh in the Autumn of that year, she faked her own death. Possibly with the poisons with which she was so well versed. Such delusions of her own importance and carefree of Anthony’s welfare indicates a mind devoid of [xx]‘views on the decline of human capital as the quest for individual life goals had become more apparent in the minds of family members over the unit itself’ Such a legacy that was left from her Greek Potomac ancestry. [xxi]‘For she hoped that even if he did hate Antony, he would yet take pity on her at least.’

Anthony’s reaction, [xxii]‘O Cleopatra, I am not distressed to have lost you, for I shall straightaway join you; but I am grieved that a commander as great as I should be found to be inferior to a woman in courage.’ Was only endemic of his obsession based psychosis at that point. A point at which he threw himself on the pint of a sword with the help of one of his Egyptian aids. Though Cleopatra was still alive and upon her revival spent nine days in negotiation with Octavian in, [xxiii]‘in sumptuous and royal fashion’. The Queen of Isis was finally broken, without a militaristic and paternal support structure she was, [xxiv]‘in terrible disarray, her voice trembled, and her eyes were sunken. There were also visible many marks of the cruel blows upon her bosom; in a word, her body seemed to be no better off than her spirit’, as Cicero puts it. She eventually met the Roman Emperor with Anthony’s love letters clasped in her hand. She knew that if she was to survive the sacking of Alexandria she would do so in the confines of a Roman dungeon. On her return to the city that had been bestowed upon her by Ptolemy XI Cleopatra lay on a golden couch, probably an Egyptian-style bed with lion paws for legs and lion heads at its corners and committed suicide with poison. [xxv]’Valour in the unfortunate obtains great reverence even among their enemies,’ Antony had breathed his last in her country, and she, ‘hapless woman,’ was to meet her end in his.

This was the end of her fractured and dissolute reign, the Queen had accomplished much, even in a state of obsessive disillusionment, and as such deserved a royal death it was assumed. The Egyptian queen could not be revived. Unlikely to have recruited an asp, or an Egyptian cobra, for the job. Cesarion was taken back to Rome and murdered there. The only surviving monarchs of the Ptolemy line was Cleopatra’s daughter who had been sent, in despair and premonition of the oncoming storm, to the Mauritanian throne. Selene Cleopatra, as she was known, continued the corrupted bloodline with homage to her doomed mother in the form of coins in her image.

Although the queens career occurred at the same time as Latin Literature came into its own she was as corrupt and damaged as the Romans she sought to aspire to, as far as her dynasty was concerned in any event. It is to be understood that Alexandria did not immediately disappear, it was used as a hub of activity and trade for nearly a hundred years after, but under the auspices of Rome’s rule. Cleopatra however was cast as [xxvi]‘the whore queen,’ later ‘a woman of insatiable sexuality and insatiable avarice’.

The unstable and fragmented mind of a Hellenistic Queen had asserted herself forever into historical admiration, despite the unfortunate circumstances of her bloodline. A third century chronicler once said, ‘What is it to lose your country—a great suffering? The woman who destroyed the Egyptian monarchy’ As the proponents of today’s Canterbury University might ascertain, what was it all for? What indeed? As Alexandria gave over to a long state of mourning, we must reflect that there were no revolts in her reign, or in the capital and surrounding areas was peace. A peace brought about by the deaths of many and unfortunate and learned figure in our historic consequence. What’s more the needless deaths of the Ptolemy’s dynasty itself. Was the fear of the Ptolemy’s justified we ask? Or did it just become a house of memories through incestuous alliances? [xxvii]‘To become attached to society, the child must feel in it something that is real, alive and powerful, which dominates the person to which he also owes the best part of himself’, re-enforcing this view that education was the cornerstone to forming a link between the individual and society’. Perhaps fear and ambition through loneliness is the same thing?

[i] Elena Blanco-Suarez Ph.D, Brain Chemistry, 2018

[ii] Douglas La Bier Ph.D, The New Resilience, 2018

[iii] Hal Herzog Ph.D, Animals and Us, October 11 2012

[iv] Unknown Third century chronicler, 300 BC

[v] Green, Peter, ed. Hellenistic History and Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

[vi] Southend News Network, August 24 2018

[vii] Absolom-Hornby, Gooding, Tarrier, Ghent University, Belgium, 2011

[viii] I Riglin, 2016, Lancit Psyciatry

[ix] Hölbl, Gunther. A History of the Ptolemaic Empire . New York: Routledge, 2001.

[x] Garb and Boyal, American Psychriatric Association, 2013

[xi] Cicero’s Diaries, 58 BC

[xii] Moses, 2010 and Ridley, 2014

[xiii] John Thomson, Rejeeve Syal and Jessica Elgot, The Guardian, 11 October 2018

[xiv] Schmid Mast and Hall, 2004

[xv] Mermet, 2006

[xvi] Fraser, P. M. Ptolemaic Alexandria . 3 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972.

[xvii] Rostovtzeff, M. The Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World. 3 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.

[xviii] Telegraph, Camilla Turner, Eductaion Editor, October 2018

[xix] Dominic Turgoose, Kings Centre for Millitary Health, Kings Clollage London, 2016

[xx] Herbert Gintis, Notes on Family Fragmentation, 1940.

[xxi] Walker, Susan, and Peter Higgs, eds. Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.

[xxii] Tarn, William W., and M. P. Charlesworth. Octavian, Antony and Cleopatra . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965.

[xxiii] Gruen, Erich S. The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome . 2 vols. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

[xxiv] Everitt, Anthony. Augustus: The Life of Rome’s First Emperor . New York: Random House, 2006.

[xxv] Bowman, Alan K. Egypt After the Pharaohs . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

[xxvi] International Colloquium, Leuven, 24 – 26 May 1982 . Studia Hellenistica 27. Leuven: Studia Hellenistica, 1983.

[xxvii] Durkheim, (Haralambos and Holburm Sociology, Themes And Perspectives 2004).

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i. Rome, Ciaran Hinds, Lindsey Duncan, James Purifoy, Bruno Heller, 2005

ii. Alexandria, BBC, 2005

iii. Gods of Egypt, Geoffrey Rush, Gerald Butler, Alex Proyas

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It is in this Retrospective Rumours that I examine the consequences of endowing ambition with personal desire and validification. To do this I examine further the might of the Ptolemy’s and the way in which their empire decided, in their wisdom, threat to rule one might keep the bloodline pure. This always fascinated me, particularly the way in which they did this. Incest. A disgusting practice even in modern times, not least postmodern. It seems to create, among other things, an inherent state of schizophrenia and insecurity that resonated down the generations. The resultant desperation to find that match that will secure one’s own future rather than asserting one’s own state of mind as an individual is dangerous in a civilian individual let alone a royal dynasty. As I trawl through the might and majesty of the ancient Egyptians I sought to identify how this effected through the line and desperation in a physiological aspect. Cleopatra VII was a particularly interesting subject in this respect. I can only hope you might think as much yourself. The instigator of a disastrous house of memories through the securing of base desires and incest.

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It is approximately the time of year for my regular school reunion. Although I look forward to such events I have to ask myself the question of fortune and how lucky I have been in the face of such debilitating conditions as dyslexia. Looking at such fortunes as that provided by the 70’s makes me reflect on today’s educational standards. The aim of most cultures is to advance their ability and knowledge base in all aspects of life. In the prehistory civilizations of Europe and other middle eastern cultures that ability was addressed with a point of view edging towards Mechanical Solidarity to a high degree. However, today all education instructing the young in varying topics is difficalt to the tenth degree. Even getting into collages has become stacked with barriers. The new students today flock into differing schooling systems and their families are forking out immense sums to get a good education for their future. Unfortunately, academic places of learning have had to gather together to uphold the legacies left by such famous intellectuals as Shelly and Byron. It was 1814 and Mary Godwin was meant to be on a secret getaway with her lover, Percy, but they seemed to have brought others with them to the small hamlet of Cologny near Lake Geneva. There ensued a battle of the minds that evening, where all would be challenged to come up with the most compelling ghost story. Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus would go down as a great work. Reworked throughout history even to this day.

The real question we have to ask ourselves is how education is to be formed in our modern age compared to the way in which inspiration was generated in such a classical century of literature as the 19th). Stimulants are no longer the norm within the context of educational development and so we look to more conservative ways in which to promote its understanding. As I have mentioned numerous times before, Dialactic Eductaion as propounded by Karl Marx was a founding basis upon which we look at our conformist state in the 20) th. Marx said that his reasoning was that to build a Hidden Curriculum lying below the Real Curriculum which was a product of a culture that can be given material rewards that are for the good of the whole rather than the individual. A bonding of two classes. A Cultural Capital. By organizing what would later be described as a State Apparatus, around a quantitative basis, children could be compartmentalized and structuralized, (lesson timetables, individual leaning programes, and a very regimented regime), at an early age to prepare them a life within the workplace. Critical Education. His approach was very much based upon a Macro point of view and his reasoning was that society creates people rather than people creating society.

Our literary talent is on the decrease should we leave the EU and Louise Richardson says, “A university’s excellence comes from its academics.” Richardson is the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. She believes that if universities lose their fame EU students will have to pay more than the British. Over the last 13 months, says Richardson, there has been a 14% drop in applications to British universities. More and more home Eductaion is looking like a viable alternative. It is a choice made by the individual parent which reflects on the teacher’s job.

The idea of Critical Eductaion as thought of by Marx, can only be applied to those within working class, or comprehensive systems of education. Those in Grammar schools have a higher status in the system because they focus mainly in academic subjects which allow them to escape the fate that critical education provides and move into well paid and high status occupations. Consequently, this Fragmentation creates a divide within the class system we see today. The idea of collective consciousness is something David Émile Durkheim (1858), advocated. Perhaps neither of these two options is preferable and our future should be left to find the answers to its own questions and the tutor should be trusted to achieve this. In 2017 Literature based works promote breakdown of the boundary between author and reader.

Barley’s description of the modern home seems, on reflection, quite stayed and confined in various respects, but it is most useful. It can be argued that it is quite accurate also. Certainly, within the context of the family unit he is correct in that rooms are mainly sectioned off and segregated according to how they are used. This tends to be different within the UK at least according to various outside influences from, finance, to comununal living, and construction of a family unit. It is evident that this description is not a universal one but it is definitely not good for educational stability. A Functionalist point of view towards this would be called Teleology. This indicates the projection of viewpoints to find out the likelihood of future sociological developments. This is a vital part if the functionalist theory as without this ability there would be no social progression. A theory that is debateable at best.

Internet/Satellite TV/Mobiles, ECT are Mostly screen based and interactive. Does this promote control over our learning abilities? The Marxists believe that ownership is control and that is exercised by those in such control. The Pluralists believe that the audience control through sales and diversity, via the Government who oversee censorship and content. Evidence for this is very difficult to find. Sales and controlling powers are easier to see if you are an insider, (Editors and such like). Glasgow Media Group looked into the control of TV News, examining the content, (70’s), and editorial process. Is it better today just to look outside onto our nearest lake and wonder at the oncoming storm to get our inspiration? One might wonder whether this might be the case. Certainly getting high and promoting the use of copious amounts of electric shocks worked for Mary Shelly. We ought to try it. Maybe not. Within years fast becoming residue. Education lies within our kin

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· Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, 1994, Kenneth Branagh, Francis Ford Coppola, James V. Hart, John Veitch, Helena Bonham Carter, Robert De Nero

· Frankenstein Chronicles, 2015, Benjamin Ross, Barry Langford, Sean Bean, Tom Ward, Richie Campbell, Vanessa Kirby, Ed Stoppard, Ryan Sampson, Robbie Gee, Anna Maxwell Martin, Charlie Creed-Miles

· Penny Dreadful, 2014, John Logan, Andrew Hinderaker, Krysty Wilson-Cairns, Harry Teadaway

· Mary Shelly, 2017, Haifaa al-Mansour, Amy Baer, Elle Fanning, Douglas Booth, Bel Powley, Ben Hardy, Tom Sturridge, Maisie Williams

· Michael Tellinger, Ancient Civilisations Before Samaria and Egypt, Dec 11 2015

· The Effects Of A Gender Neutral education, No More Boys and Girls Command Our Kids, Nov 3 2018

· Karl Marx: The Dialectic Process, Debra Marshall PhD, Dec 24 2012

· Knowing Your ILP, (Interactive Learning Plan), Aug 15 2016

· The Big Picture, Louise Richardson, May 2017

· ‘Home Education’ How Beneficial Is It? – Learning Word, 29 Nov 2013

· Durkheim Collective Cociance Jan 7 2017

· Durkheim Collective Cociance, How Feminism Destroyed The Nuclear Family, Aug 19 2016

· Durkheim And Collective Conscious, How Feminism Destroyed The Nuclear Family, Functionalist Approach, Feb 18 2017

· Durkheim And Collective Conscience, How Feminism Destroyed The Nuclear Family, Interactive Design and Technology, Dec 20 2016

· Durkheim And Collective Consciousness, How Feminism Destroyed The Nuclear Family, How To Generate Leads Trough Social Media, July 12 2009

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