No one can take away your dignity, but they can make it costly to hold on to. Conversely, we cannot force others to hold on to theirs. Perhaps, however, we can make it more costly to discard one's dignity at the feet of tyrants?
There is of course the social contract the contract between the people and those “ elected” to govern. Governments have progressively broken that contract. To regain our dignity we need to scrap the corrupt system and start again and change the master slave relationship.
I read this in the Spectator, but prefer to thank you on this channel. Wilfred Owen should be much more widely read, especially nowadays. Just as apt as your quotation is this final stanza from Insensibility:
From barmy Blighty: dignity, decency, restraint,discretion and accountability seem to have vanished, replaced by official amnesia, vulgar media types, grotesque freaky ' performers'- Sam Smith anybody?-and the latest addition to the growing list of 'oppressed minorities'- 'minor attracted persons'.
The MSM is increasingly concerned with misgendering misdemeanours, while our Daily Telegraph has blown the whistle by publishing excerpts from Hapless Hopeless Hancock's whatsapp discussions with colleagues.
I have suspected for several months that Hancock would be hung out to dry, with the approval of HMG, and here we have it.
Meanwhile, we are being encouraged/ nudged to add food rationing to our to-do list by a bunch of academics, although many of us are already rationing as we try to adapt as best we can to the alarming increases in the cost of living.
Oh dear, tears. They started with the family’s weary old dog and ended with the other weary old dog, our society and democracy. I hope we can find another one to love, nurture and to love us back before too long. Beautiful writing, thanks again.
No one can take away your dignity, but they can make it costly to hold on to. Conversely, we cannot force others to hold on to theirs. Perhaps, however, we can make it more costly to discard one's dignity at the feet of tyrants?
There is of course the social contract the contract between the people and those “ elected” to govern. Governments have progressively broken that contract. To regain our dignity we need to scrap the corrupt system and start again and change the master slave relationship.
Thank you. You always bless me with your thoughts.
I read this in the Spectator, but prefer to thank you on this channel. Wilfred Owen should be much more widely read, especially nowadays. Just as apt as your quotation is this final stanza from Insensibility:
"But cursed are dullards whom no cannon stuns,
That they should be as stones.
Wretched are they, and mean
With paucity that never was simplicity.
By choice they made themselves immune
To pity and whatever mourns in man
Before the last sea and the hapless stars;
Whatever mourns when many leave these shores;
Whatever shares
The eternal reciprocity of tears."
From barmy Blighty: dignity, decency, restraint,discretion and accountability seem to have vanished, replaced by official amnesia, vulgar media types, grotesque freaky ' performers'- Sam Smith anybody?-and the latest addition to the growing list of 'oppressed minorities'- 'minor attracted persons'.
The MSM is increasingly concerned with misgendering misdemeanours, while our Daily Telegraph has blown the whistle by publishing excerpts from Hapless Hopeless Hancock's whatsapp discussions with colleagues.
I have suspected for several months that Hancock would be hung out to dry, with the approval of HMG, and here we have it.
Meanwhile, we are being encouraged/ nudged to add food rationing to our to-do list by a bunch of academics, although many of us are already rationing as we try to adapt as best we can to the alarming increases in the cost of living.
Oh dear, tears. They started with the family’s weary old dog and ended with the other weary old dog, our society and democracy. I hope we can find another one to love, nurture and to love us back before too long. Beautiful writing, thanks again.
Thank you.......
Dignity seems to be generally lacking these days, replaced by narcism.
Whenever someone tells me to comply, I respond with:
"Compliance is cowardice".
Some are angered, some are shocked, and fewer still are in agreement.