A fitting time for"noble obligations"
The collapse of noble obligation in the West is so profound and endemic governments and media institutions are being indicted for their crimes.
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"Noble obligation" is a concept that refers to the idea that people with wealth, power, or prestige have a duty to act responsibly and help others. The phrase noblesse oblige is French for "nobility obligates" and was first recorded in English in 1837.—Google
Where there is no reference to the past and present, futures are dismal
As our societies have become infantilized and one conspicuous absentee is a sense of noble obligation on the part of our leaders. As stated above it is the obligation of the wealthy, powerful and privileged to serve community and country for the betterment of all. This includes taking responsibility for one’s actions and decisions. It also means leading by example with considerable integrity.
We live in a time when Western governance has hit bottom. Bad decisions, incompetence and corruptions impact on millions of people and result in the misappropriation of billions of dollars and precious resources squandered.
It becomes obvious how we govern ourselves must be radically reformed and re-democratized as too much of what is happening is a decades long incremental collapse of democratic and once sacred social values.
Many years ago I read the story of how an assistant to president Ronald Reagan made a evening delivery of briefing papers for an important meeting the next day. The president responded that he was watching the Sound of Music and didn’t want to be disturbed.
Richard A. Clarke a security advisor to Bush ll reported in one of his many books how the president rebuffed his repeated warnings of an imminent terrorist attack on mainland USA prior to 9/11. It was also reported Bush ll spent a good part of his time chopping wood on his Texas ranch.
When Obama was approached about holding the Bush ll administration accountable for its wrong doings he passed. Just as decades earlier the Dulles brothers were not held accountable for their antics.
President Bill Clinton signed the legislation that repealed large parts of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999. The repealing of the GSA was a major contributing factor in the stock market crash of 2008. The bank bail out cost tax payers 475 billion dollars. 3.8 million Americans lost their homes. Meanwhile Clinton had lapsed in to a well-padded retirement.
When standing ovations signal the death of noble obligations.
It is a pathetic comment on politics of the West that legislators see their only obligations are to their pay checks, bribes, pensions and a hideously corrupted status quo. Their only modus operandi is to go along to get along where truth is a profanity and hypocrisy reigns supreme.
When Hillary Clinton attended the Liberal Party of Canada Convention in May of 2023 she received numerous standing ovations. She used the occasion to incite more wars, more hatred directed at Russia with the lingering bitterness of her failed attempt to win the US presidency. She could never admit her tarnished credentials paved the way for a Trump victory.
Only months later “The Yaroslav Hunka scandal erupted on September 22, 2023, when Yaroslav Hunka, a Ukrainian Canadian who fought in the SS Division Galicia during World War II, was invited to the House of Commons of Canada. He was recognized by Speaker Anthony Rota and received two standing ovations from all house members, including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy”( Microsoft Copilot)
Anybody knowing an iota of history knew that Rota had blundered. For Hunka had to be a Nazi fighting on the Russian front then, just as Russia is fighting Ukraine Nazi militias today. The Zelenskyy regime, puppet to its NATO backers is owned and controlled by Neo-Nazis which was well publicized by the Western media prior to Russia’s SEO of February 2022. The Western media went abruptly silent on the Neo-Nazi infiltration and its control over Ukrainian politics.
The Russian Front was where WW ll was won and 22 million Russians died for the cause.—a tidbit of history the West cannot acknowledge to this day.
Following the blunder Antony Rota resigned and the apologies were profuse, even so the damage was done, and Canada’s Parliament once again showed itself as indiscreet trained seals barking on demand. The cat was out of the bag… Canada was supporting a Neo Nazism in Ukraine with a deputy prime minister with deep family roots in Ukraine’s Nazi past and a powerful Canadian Ukrainian Congress lobbying the Canadian Government.
On July 24th of this year Netanyahu interrupted his genocide to come Washington to address a joint session of the US Congress. He was greeted with over 50 standing ovations in an hour long speech and at one point had to admonish his audience to be silent so he could speak. It was a tribute to AIPAC, the powerful lobby controlling US politics, and how thoroughly it had done its job passing around cash and favors.
While the ballot would be printed for candidates representing the two traditional parties the covert Zionists and Neocons were biding their time waiting for the grand deception known as a presidential election was over and their license for more war renewed.
No time or money for Noble obligations
In the Mammonocracy where government is run by lobbyists, think tanks and oligarchs with fat wallets the“go along to get along”/pack mentality prevails.
To run for political office is a very expensive proposition where aspiring politicians must have donors or PACs to be in contention, which results in politicians being bought and paid for when they arrive in office. They are very prone to standing ovations and wilful ignorance.
As AIPACs influence over US politics becomes more deeply entrenched so too does it expand its headquarters building in Washington.
Politicians are captive to the corporate and vested interests financing their campaigns, where there is little time or inclination for being honest and responsible representatives of the public interest or being some what informed and objective on critical issues.
The social contracts between governments and the peoples they are supposed to serve are shattered and noble obligations are a definitive part of the contracts.
Where governments retreat from their noble obligations they become robotic, retreating into authoritarianism, secrecy, hypocrisy and the vilification of designated scapegoats.
Where governments preside over continuous warfare and genocides their selfish-disregard becomes criminal negligence and out right treason (Their behaviors become so delusional they accuse others of treason when the treason is theirs and theirs alone).
The end result is bunkered societies frozen in time, where the very rich are bunkered down in their contempt and disdain for their own peoples and a xenophobic fear of the larger world and their self- imposed and self-diminishing role . Where they so insanely tried to control the world as a minority the majority is insisting on its right to exist.
The peoples of the West are in turn bunkered where our democracies have been gutted our disenfranchisement complete and the costs of wars and tyrannies must be purged.
Now the agents of retribution, restorative justice, and proportionality are moving toward a new and essential equilibrium.
When retributions become noble obligations
Donald Trump now has the greatest opportunity ever to exercise noble obligations; but as emperor elect he can also do more devastating damage at home and abroad. The ultimate collapse of American democracy has greatly empowered him beyond being just another nominal president.
He is dealing in retribution as he has just launched law suits against the media that desperately tried to destroy him:
“Donald Trump has recently launched a series of lawsuits against major news outlets, including The New York Times, CBS News, and Penguin Random House, seeking billions in damages for alleged defamation. These lawsuits claim that the media outlets published defamatory material about Trump, particularly focusing on articles and a book titled "Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success".—Microsoft Copilot
His retribution against the media is well and appropriately timed as never has the mainstream media so thoroughly discredited itself as the propagandist for a barbaric status quo,its endless corruptions and foreign wars. Suing the media in these times becomes but another cause célèbre.
Another institutional collapse is the collapse of jurisprudence. Where politicians make laws they are just as quick to walk away from them. Justice must be both restored and retribution undertaken against governments who are guilty of criminal negligence on a massive scale where thousands of lives are lost:
“A coalition of lawyers, representing two Palestinian-Canadian plaintiffs, has initiated legal action against the Canadian government. The lawsuit, filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, alleges that Canada failed to prevent genocide in Gaza, violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The plaintiffs, Hany el Batnigi and Tamer Jarada, have experienced significant personal loss due to the ongoing conflict in Gaza. They argue that Canada did not take necessary actions to influence Israel or provide adequate support to Canadian citizens trapped in Gaza”.— Microsoft Copilot
In the video below lawyers launch their case. The seven lawyers involved are working on a pro bono basis. It is noteworthy that no major news sources reported the launching of their action, and only one reporter attended.
Canada’s politicians can count on the media as their on-call apologists, a cozy relationship where the shabby media receive government subsidies and abandon their noble obligation to honestly inform.
In the West the pillars of civilization are in full collapse, noble obligation suffers as lunacy takes over.
Part ll - Conclusion, Wednesday November 20th
Can 'nobility' still be found in our Western world??? It is turning into a 'free for all', where anyone can do as he/she pleases with NO CONSEQUENCES. If we want to survive fairly alive, we must stop sucking up to this 'nobility' and see them for what they really are: parasites of society.
Good post, Robert, and best of luck with your new way of posting. Thanks so much for sharing the video about the seven lawyers taking the Canadian government to court over its support of the genocide in Gaza.