Episode 6.12: On the greatness of a woman and the poverty of monarchy.

The death of Queen Elizabeth II marks the end of the life of someone who was, by any conceivable standards, a great woman. Her greatness had nothing to do with being a monarch, but with the way she discharged the onerous duties that entails. For the rest, she embodies everything we all should aspire to be, not in subservience but in autonomous freedom and dutiful service. So we mourn her passing while deploring the institution that she served with such distinction because it represents and reinforces everything that is wrong with our dysfunctional leadership-obsessed human lives.