https://didacticmind.com/2024/05/the-america-we-once-knew-no-longer-exists.html Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Sat, 25 May 2024 14:32:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://didacticmind.com/2024/05/the-america-we-once-knew-no-longer-exists.html#comment-8807 Sat, 25 May 2024 14:32:10 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=20442#comment-8807 the destruction of noblesse oblige was one of the primary goals of Marxism. aristos were usually arrogant bastards, but at some level they at least went through the motions of having loyalty and responsibility towards their countrymen.
consider the St Crispin’s Day speech from Shakespeare or the fact that even the most privileged of aristos considered it their duty to lead from the front ( a la Pickett’s Charge ) and to enlist in the military.
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the whole trope about the poors being sent to die in the wars of the riches is straight out of Marxist ideology. even as recently as WW2, British officers were still making stately marches across the battlefield in plain view of enemy gunners … because they had a responsibility to not show fear and ruin the esprit de corps of their men.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUzd9KyIDrM
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whereas, i would say today that it’s near universal in “our” upper classes that they won’t have anything to do with serving in our wars ( see how many got exemptions from Vietnam ) but they love starting them. funny how many of them are happy to join the IDF though.
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and of course the other effect is also Marxist in origin, the erasure of God and Church from public life in the US.

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