The European Union, in between bouts of financial insanity, has recently found time to indulge in its other favorite past-time: egalitarian social engineering.
Last month, the European Union decided that it ought to be illegal for a father to give away his daughter on her wedding day, saying that such a practice is an affront to equality and treats daughters as chattels.
So, a time-honored practice that has its roots in the primordial participation of the human father in life of his family is equated with the barbarism of slavery simply because it is old and it revolts against some modern notions of "equality" spread by a democratic bureaucracy with the historical memory of a scholarly goldfish. It is but one more assault on the beauty of the ages by a bunch of chronological snobs hell-bent on making man in their image.
When the day comes that the EU collapses in a heap of its own piss and tears, I'll be among the ruins applauding. For the sake of Europeans, that monstrosity of an organization cannot die fast enough.
I do find the Princess of Sweden's defiance of the matter quite heartening. One of the advantages of a monarchy is that it is more prone to fits of sanity when it comes to the defense of what is good in its traditions. I find it sad that I am no longer surprised that democracies, which can only thrive on the virtue of the population, are more likely to toss virtue aside at a whim. At least, when a king does it, it is but one man's flaw writ large. It is far more disturbing when a collpasing society does so on the aggregate of its people's flaws.
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