Richard III and Why Our Modern Society Can No Longer Stand Up

If you know the history of England, probably one of its most important moments was on the 22nd of August 1485, in a great battle where the leader of the nation, Richard III, was killed in its defence. This was the last battle where a king would die in it. 

In society generally today you will often hear the words: empathy, inclusion, diversity, equality and so on and so on. But you will not hear the words: honour, respect, honesty, love, that much any more.

I'm wondering if the current grotesque society we must live in and find our way through safely with our households and families, has found itself in this state. Because The People - who hold ultimate power at the root, have forgotten that though acting with honour is a very hard thing to keep up and bears little reward on the earth, nonetheless, if you can do it authentically, your descendants will give you the respect that must come with your act of honour, in remembrance of you. 

And that this outcome is what all of us really want more than all else. If we can find the strength to be authentic about it. 

Richard III, held the throne for only 2 years as King of England in the 15th century over 500 years ago. His mantras were: honour, loyalty, allegiance, fidelity, devotion, fealty, faithfulness, steadfastness, reliability and defence. And he died upholding these mantras, in honour of the nation he led according to the sketchy reports that remain. And I think its fair to say that England pays him the respect he deserves today, in spite of the propaganda of his slayers who said the opposite. 

And how often do we still see this act of disinformation from the media, academies of learning, halls of science and historians today, especially the state funded forms - it seems the general rule today rather than an exception or accident. It seems to be the normal act. No one got fired for disinformation or grassing up a neighbour, friend or colleague so long as it followed the present narrative of society in this time and place, notwithstanding any of it being a psycho-analytical and systemic lie.

Which is curious. Somehow, in spite of the widespread and fully adopted misinformation written by the winners, Richard's honour STILL overwhelms it all. A never ending and hugely powerful social deceit is still won over by honour. But how? What so easily carries this truth way above the staggering levels of socially induced misinformation for what might end up an eternity?

Richard's rule was plagued be the antonyms of honour, by competing tribes attempting to usurp the kings throne for themselves. Yes, he made mistakes which may have led to his end. But were these mistakes wrapped in dishonour. Or were they simply, mistakes?

I cannot offer you his-story. Because the systemic misinformation we today call history cannot be relied on for accuracy. 

In our current time and place, observing its narrative, do you really believe that history will report that the pandemic was just an epidemic and not a gargantuan and reckless experimental weapon which escaped and went very badly wrong? They already had a vaccine for it obviously. It may have been a dangerous vaccine too, but it would cure many on the home side with more acceptable losses. But they had a vaccine already don't you know. No tests of its efficacy and capability were needed you see. Even the so called pandemic systemic scandal has been revised over and over and its only been 4 years since. And certainly there was no honour evident in the global state interventions which caused so many to die in excess of the expected norms and are still dying.

Do you really still believe the horrendous things the current president was reported to have said, he actually said? The fake news has been debunked so many times its painful to watch otherwise intelligent people expose their lack of honour and worse still their lack of wisdom, in the face of the state they willingly elected to do bad so that they might live on in more comfort. Do you really believe that this derangement syndrome is anything less than a way to cover up the prior complicity - dishonourably. The red wall can see right through all this, even though poorly educated, they still have the wisdom to see it clearly.

Do you really still believe, so easy as it is to do so because it follows the narrative so well, that George Floyd was killed by a cop? When if you go as far as you can to the root, the coroners report, stated that he died of a drug overdose, no less than fentanyl when the death symptoms are asphyxiation. Observe how the narrative played out here. This evidence though not covered up at all, was simply... ignored. The law is not enough if it does not harmonise with the narrative. And the consequences of this has been that the black race is once again set up for exploitation, yet again systemically. And the people asked for it through our dishonourable escape route of wealth and power.

If you still believe any of this, and the rest, you are fully co-opted by the present day's largest social narrative. I cannot blame you given not to do so means your household and family are at risk. But that is still dishonourable. 

Richard, as leader of the nation, died for it, knowing that was his duty and entered the fray willingly and outnumbered by the dishonoured, certain to be struck down by a heavy axe to the head, while being surrounded and beaten. Even his slayers reported how he fought with distinction to the end. An act of the highest honour. So we REMEMBER him, above all attempts to misinform us. 

Richard III by an unknown artist; oil on panel, late 16th century. NPG148 © National Portrait Gallery, London.

Its hard to say what is the mechanism which carries the act of honour across the centuries like it does for Richard. Especially if we insist on finding the mechanics of it on the earth. Is honour a form of archetype - the kind of knowledge embedded in the genes at birth, who can say? Science cannot measure it so to science it does not exist. Might it be the story, the myth, the symbol of honour - which all of us understand, immediately, intuitively, instinctively, primordially, which carries it through the ether?

I do not know. Yet it seems to happen anyway. 

What I do know is that it's nigh on impossible to find the act of honour in any leader today. Except in those who oppose the grotesque false empathy so widely spread about the modern world.

No leader is ready to die for the nation they claim to love anymore. None of them seem to want to be honoured when they are gone, except in a sort of sickening, childish ego trip while they live out long lives of dishonour.

And in my view, this is why Society today is slowly being hollowed out and its decline very well managed by its leadership. This is not to blame wealth and power or the leaders per se. I see anyone who does blame them as trying to escape from their own complicity in their own problems - a kind of projection, an escape. These minorities of wealth and power allegedly leading us, are mere proxies for The People, who really hold the power and are abusing it systemically, but as a collective, which appears to have a life of its own, unconscious of its own acts. 

It is to blame in totality The People who select and elect them every time. That is, You and I. 

So what is the answer? It is honour, of course! The act of an individual who has the courage to step outside of the protection of society. Or would it be more widely understood by the people to say - to step over the frontier, into the forbidden zone, whatever the consequences to myself?