[rdb3]

We who once governed the world are reduced to a “life” of eating, drinking, drugging, copulating, evacuating the bowels, snoring and attending “The Game!”

Okay, if I may ask, what part of the world did you govern?

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

OOPS! I see the pronoun offended your deeply held egalitarian proclivities. Yes, the "Royal We" does implicitly speak of the master-servant relationship as well as that of the governor- governed. This usage of "We" a true egalitarian finds outrageous as he views everyone from the Tierra del Fuegan to New York sophisticate as "Jes Folks tryin to make a buck!