canute

That's like King Canute who ordered the waves to stop (except Canute's whole point was that they wouldn't comply, even for a king).

We did all live in the same kingdom a thousand years ago (during Canute The Great's reign).

To me, this seems like Canute demanding the sea doesn't rise, because he doesn't like wet feet.

Don’t try to fight the evolution of language; you may as well stand with Canute by the sea, yelling at the tide.

Cameron is unwittingly turning himself into the King Canute of myth, trying to prove that he can turn off the tide of truth.

In fact, King Canute was once simultaneously king of England, Denmark, and Norway.

We don't like it, but we're no more able than King Canute to hold back the tides.

Unfortunately I don't think they can stop it any more than King Canute could stop the tide.

It seem that only France seems to feel the need to have a bureaucracy to try (in a king canute like way) to hold back the tides.

Fighting human nature is a King-canute move.

The influence of this influx of wealth can be likened to a rising tide, and as Canute demonstrated, it is not terribly accomodating: the flow of dollars does not hear this outcry.

I think the history of music (and more generally of art) is the story of the breaking-down of existing borders, while the history of those who would try to enforce the borders is the story of Canute on the beach.

"The episode is frequently alluded to in contexts where the futility of 'trying to stop the tide' of an inexorable event is pointed out, but usually misrepresenting Canute as believing he had supernatural powers, when Huntingdon's story in fact relates the opposite."

"Stopping the tide coming in" is usually a reference to the English king Cnut (or 'Canute') who legendarily made his courtiers carry him to the sea: > When he was at the height of his ascendancy, he ordered his chair to be placed on the sea-shore as the tide was coming in.

"Millenium" is much too long a timescale to predict; look at the last one, and tell me if you seriously think anyone in the year 1024 would've foreseen the rise to global dominance of one third of King Canute[0]'s North Sea Empire and how that small, wet, sheep-filled rock managed to conquer more of the world than they knew existed at the time… before then collapsing in a series of pyrrhic victories.

No law will change this, but it's apparently harder to communicate than King Canute's point about the tide was.

It's interesting that English speaking people have forgotten how to pronounce K before N, so the Danish king Knud became Canute.

The tide eventually receded from King Canute, but that's not because of anything he did.