Hereditary Monarchies

I won’t be considering republics since I’ve written about them at length elsewhere. Instead, I’ll concentrate on monarchies, taking the situations mentioned above and discussing how each kind of state can be governed and held.

So I’ll begin by noting that hereditary monarchies where people have long been used to the ruler’s family are far easier to hold than new ones; all a monarch need do is avoid upsetting the order established by his predecessors, trim policies to circumstances when there is trouble, and, assuming he is of average ability, he will keep his kingdom for life. Only extraordinary and overwhelming force will be able to take it off him and even then he’ll win it back as soon as the occupying power runs into trouble…

When a dynasty survives for generations memories fade and likewise motives for change; upheaval, on the contrary, always leaves the scaffolding for building further change

Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (by: Tim Parks)

My brother in Christ, the irony of a proud Aksumite realpolitiko using wisdom from the Italian school of political science is not lost upon me. Keep your friends close; your enemies closer. War is an art and a science.

Machiavelli’s advice is hundreds of years old, and yet relevant. Afroasiatic archeofuturism is not past worship. It is about synthesizing Lindy wisdom with contemporary cutting-edge technological advances. The best of both worlds.

Next year (2023) marks fifty years since Ethiopia had a functioning absolute monarchy. The Red Terror Communist Upheaval upheaved the 3,000 year old society, and nigh 2,000 year old monarchic dynasty that ran the show and kept order. The havoc and chaos caused cannot and should not ever be understated. The best recent example I have witnessed of Red Terror analysis is Grandpa Was an Emperor, a film centering the lives of the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of His Imperial Majesty Emperor Hayle Silase, whilst telling the tale of Ethiopia’s hemorrhaging writ large. Even they undersell and pull punches on the harm caused, but overall I loved the film, and it was an absolute breath of fresh air compared to everything else available on the market.

I couldn’t help thinking what could have been of my sweet sweet Ethiopia if the ‘international community’ hadn’t sown its seeds of discord amongst brethren; an abomination to his soul. My maternal grandfather, whose writings I have been sharing for awhile, was a minor nobleman of the town Ajiré, just outside of Dabat, Gwender. Whilst he has traces of Tigray and Gwejam within his seven generations, he is overwhelmingly a man of Northern Gwender (including Welqayt; all the lands west of the Tekezé River) and Southern Gwender. He was something close to a baron or an earl, but after renouncing his aristocratic privileges, he ascended the ranks of consulates of Ethiopia in Sudan, Egypt, Italy, Saudi, and Yemen, until the Emperor’s regime was felled, and the communists cunningly asked him to be the main administrator (equivalent to duke just a year before) of all of Gwender (Begémdr). He served even them, as he armed the denizens of his realm with confidence and guns, for about six months, after which he retired in his 40s for flaneurship: family, philanthropy, and writing.

If Aksum is restored… I would not throw my hat in the game of throne of thrones. But I would respectfully throw my hat in the game of thrones of Ajiré. And from what I hear, these good people have not forgotten about their ruler’s family. In fact, many of them are related, by blood and by bonds greater than blood.

Establishing order would be the number one priority, and it would be easier done here than in other parts of what the current regime still calls the Amhara Region, in the second year of a civil war against the insurrectionist ravenous junta who succeeded the communists, and somehow did an even worse job of running the country. Intentionally so. By them, and their puppet masters in the ‘international community’.

I pray the war ends soon.

I pray pseudo-ethnolinguistic federalism is discarded as soon as is humanly possible.

I pray Aksum is restored.