for me Disney's Sword in the Stone and Boorman's Excalibur are clearly expensive professional corporate entertainment industrial studio productions, creative artistic interpreting of legendary characters relationship between place and power with identity.
Films bankrolled on the success of a Broadway musical theatre Camelot popularizing earlier published fiction embellishing on ancient story and characters believed by some to be an authentic historical cultural relic.
Merlin and Arthur, one magically initiating a special destiny of divinely chosen representative kingship
advising informing the other as to how to rule a just and peaceful kingdom that's fertility and prosperity are linked to the judgement conduct and actions
directed through the person who is bound by sacred prohibitions to have a special destiny with the land amplifying the connection with free will and accountability, reason and order with the wellbeing of others in a safe and hospitable environment.
The wise old teacher of the ways of the many things of this world with their secret conversations and the unexpected leader whose need of council of continued right action is necessary in increasingly challenging circumstances.
contractual obligations understood providing belief in rules that are fair and agreements that are lasting.
the mythic lesson of life in service, the connective breath of inspiration and aspiration with the whole of being. The choices involved, the decisions to be made, the meanings discovered.
leadership takes on a sacred responsibility in the languages of peoples passed on as story.
"No More Kings" is an episode of the interstitial animated program series Schoolhouse Rock! Produced for the American Broadcast Company to break Saturday morning children's programing up with an intentional educational musical moment between shows, enchanting a generation within live broadcast range of terrestrial transmission of the product in time with the America Rock! series for the bicentennial of the United States.
Learning the story of American independence in a time before most had access to personal recording technology. the President and his tapes proving to be the dominant narrative of the age.
simple short and catchy segments slipped into young developing hearts and minds, sticking with us to this day as the remembered song that is a lesson, a clever work of art that carries with it a message believed by some to be a trusted authentic historical cultural relic of people language and place of the past produced by commercial advertising industry talent delivered as a corporate commercial agreement of property ownership.
The closing line in" No More Kings", ends with (looks like it's going to be...a free country!)
authority exists from the consent of the governed
in another language from another time and place four rhetorical humors influenced communication
Logos=reason Pathos=emotions Ethos=custom Kairos= right timing
economic rights are human rights
Global ecology and economy are disproportionally altered by international corporate technologically assisted limited liability entities with tax avoidance and wealth accumulation as life stratagems.
As legally recognized representatives of special private short term interest investment development playing inopportunity and disadvantage as a financial lever to extract a toll of assets from a targeted acquisition that is irresponsible destructive abuse of people earning a living on this world while simultaneously polluting the planet and buying off the process of governance and policy.
Extreme imbalance destabilizing natural orders and social orders alike, the business of making money.
Profits and pardons with the powers of the presidency with markets and war violating taboo safeguards of justice breaking rules, disrespecting the choices of others, demanding unquestioned obedience is a diabolical tyrant character representative unresponsive reproduced digitally and shared amongst personal devices wirelessly connected to a number of platforms simultaneously secret speculating unmoderated open forums, constant live feeds,
insider trading, capitalist currency kingdom forcing all to obey and cruelly making them pay an unfair price for dealing with them.
Episodic story for the informed young media consumer of today accessing the wisdom of the world to navigate and employ the limited agency one has to act on what you feel you believe, and with who and how that is shared.
