Royal wedding as Global Social Object

Friday, April 29. 2011

Royal wedding as Global Social Object

Household Cavalry - a better class of crowd control - and their hats upstage all others at Wedding

This is the obligatory Royal Wedding linkbait post - but watching my Twitterstream has been most entertaining this morning, as people from across the globe either settle down for a good ogle, a good snark, or pretend to feign indifference (it's really OK to watch it you know - so long as you do it ironically

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It is definitely The Biggest "Social Object" I have ever seen on my Twitterstream (even though many posters are objectors...). This is the only social object i have seen so far that allows all parties to party happily. And you don't even have to turn your avatar purple....let's face it, no one does pomp and ceremony like the British Royals.

I, of course am writing a blog post instead - bah humbug*

- but I think every republican (in the general sense) is thinking that there may be something in a bit of gloss**

The one thing I will watch is the Household Cavalry, there is something magnificent in masses of well trained men and horses in the gear of a bygone era (picture above).

*OK, OK I admit I checked the Prediction Markets to see when the divorce was. Nothing as yet....

**That's where Cromwell got it wrong.

Posted by Alan Patrick in Odds and Sods at 11:23 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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Alan, great post I'm glad you've mentioned this.

Olympics ceremonies, a World Cup, the Royal Wedding, even 9/11, they're stepping stone experiences towards another level in global consciousness.

By sharing a global social object, people conjoin a little more, are moved one way or another by the connections and experiences.

They reflect shared values on a transnational, cross-cultural, universal basis as moments of social ritual and sometimes unexpected, formative rites of passage.

Did you see Pangea Day and Donald Brown's piece on Human Universals? http://www.pangeaday.org/filmDetail.php?id=94

What will be interesting how we blend, develop and consciously understand globally shared universals as balance that with developing social, granular individuality from here on in.

#1 Anne McCrossan (Homepage) on 2011-04-29 12:11 (Reply)

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