Commentary
Perhaps only King Charles III understood that his May 6 coronation in London was one of the few opportunities in a century to reposition the concept of monarchy in the global spectrum of competing social systems.
Indeed, the “competition between competing social systems” is between systems that have come to be defined as tending toward (or predominantly) long term and spiritually or ethically based on the one hand, and predominantly short term, materialistic, and transactional on the other.
It is too soon to determine to what degree King Charles succeeded in framing the debate, other than by the symbolic example of tradition in the coronation ceremony. Or whether a predominantly reactive global audience, currently traumatized by the threat of economic dislocation, is even aware of the option of debate….