Honour is on Sale

People in the West have lost their way. We have become corrupted in values we once cherished above our very lives, and we have substituted them for the emptiness of consumerism. It was once thought that honour, family and duty were highly desirable qualities. We prized charity and self sacrifice and we valued truthfulness and commitment to justice. These were good and treasured values which contributed to make people better. One became a better person because we would not be content with victory without honour. The world became a better place, because we would not suffer our brethren to be abused or treated disdainfully. The ends did not justify the means in the old days.Yet, in the present, it is victory that counts; victory at any cost and at the price of even honour, family and duty. Victory, for us, is rewarded with fame and money and can erase the vilest evils done to attain it. You are justified in whatever you do if you succeed; that is our motto nowadays. It is almost inconceivable that we would change the moral evolution of ages for the ephemeral material gain that we now covet as a society, but it becomes clear when we understand that our Western Society has surrendered its ancient values to hedonism and financial gain. We have emptied ourselves of what made us whole, and now desperately seek to fill the void. Unlike many of our Eastern brothers, we, the Peoples of the West whose proud past made us what we are today, have forgotten that it was not the end that made us so, but the way we threaded to achieve that end that resulted in our success.What is progress without justice? Perhaps one day we will realise our folly, and remember with a heartache that we were once a better people because we sought to become better as a people. Perhaps we will one day rescue ourselves from the confusion that our hedonism has brought to us. And in that day, we shall remember that it profits one nothing to gain the whole world if, in the process, one looses oneself.