Well yes, but the people must be alienated from the decisions that shape their lives somehow. What is your proposal, if not aristocratic jingoist celebretism in the trappings if not official title of a monarch?

Feeding all of our conversations into a new llm, to be trained on the nsa's most recent surveillance data on the first of each year?

Or something involving dice?

Doesn't seem much better, if you ask me. Which you shouldn't; speak only to my attorney.