Wednesday, September 3, 2008

By now I cease to address anybody as "excellent" or "honorable" because these traits belong to God, and people get them by being good people cleaving to God and not getting these traits by defaults merely because they are of a certain social status.  That's some lame remainder of the imperial traditions, of usurping religion to justify social positions, and of assigning whole groups of people (whether races/nationalities or social layers or geographical regions) as either good/noble or bad, as if "noble" trait can be acquired by default.   Absolutely not, people are "noble" by living in a certain way and not by social positions.  Same with "honorable" and "excellent".   I might perhaps say these as formality of titles when personally meeting and addressing someone, when etiquette demands it, but from now on, people will either be written here as their name, or their career name, that's it.
This has to do with my upgraded/increased/clearer view of "kings" and "empires" and power structures, and how eternal/moral  attributes have been usurped by every kingdom/empire/nation on earth to refer to the national interest with all the greatest attributes by default, and all that is not national interest with all the worst attributes by default.   This was not always done and not pervasively done, but done by every country (and before that kingdoms and empires), and even in certain ways by non-national subgroups of people.

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