Respect

We are an interdependent species, constantly relying upon others in order to complete what we need to complete in our lives, be it our work, school, trade, etc.  And yet, it seems there are so few people right now who are worthy of our respect.  Who we can count on to deliver as promised.

A doctor wastes your time and energy by not fully engaging, by not fully understanding, by instead making a million assumptions, then brushing everything you've said aside in order to stuff you full of medication they get a kick-back on.

A police officer takes your report of stalking and abuse then never looks any further, because there's zero accountability where there's zero profit.

A teacher doesn't fully understand the subject yet uses it anyway to convey misinformed and biased opinions on the day's most urgent topics, always... in order to pass judgment on those who make them feel small.

Social Media platforms that protect everyone except for the victims.

Charities that would rather champion a lying drunkard who openly abuses women, than stand with a single mum they've never met.

It's so easy to see what it all has in common, all of them self-serving predators who have been given positions of power, to govern our safety, education, ability to work, or healthcare.

We've become a society obsessed with status symbols - and somehow repulsed by everything they are not -  honest, hardworking underdogs who have been turned into nothing more than the fodder of greedy storytellers.

Yet a society transfixed on stardom and prestige - is a society that knows nothing about honor, loyalty, respect, or responsibility.

No, the people who posses these kinds of qualities are to be exploited at every turn, especially if they are broken.

Especially if they are broken.

Terrible, horrible, worthless people now stand where noble men once stood - at the forefront of our gaze, at the pinnacle of our society, and we are all expected to clap and cheer, and suffer silently, so they can pretend hero a little longer.

The world is full of worthless men who have built a patriarchal system that has failed every single decent human alive.  Men who can't stand their own reflections for all they will ever see staring back at them is a spineless coward who chose easy over hard every single time.

So too it is full of noble men, who society happily mislabels as less, because their goals are not of the material realm.

And right now a war is being waged between the two. 

One day they will refer to this time as World War III - The War of Information.

If you look closely, you will see it - all of the ways the truth and respect are being suppressed.  "If it bleeds it leads" was the convenient excuse, but the systems of oppression are much more insidious than that.

False heroes, with their false lives and fake respect, are the clarion call of the ending of an age.

And all around us the last vestiges of war are being waged, with the innocent suffering most of all.

What side are you on?

Will history remember you with respect?

Have you got yourself some sand?

The world is asking - how will you respond?


Exe
09/10/2024

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