"Where have all the cowboys gone?" or: A poorly written, loosely linear, Babble.

What has happened to honour? Now, if it is considered at all, it is with a certain mockery - sometimes... wistfulness. Chivalry is dead! is a popular by-phrase... But then we always mock the things we wish we had and cannot attain. People seem to think of honour as something lost and unnecessary... Yet at the same time we have this surge of interest in the East - where the people even still retain the idea of honour in spades... (how many people do you know whose children are enrolled in Tae Kwon Do or other martial arts?) People crave this basic sense of rightness. More and more people are flocking to the religious and political right - even in our time of revolutionary thought and unparalleled tolerance... They are seeking comfort in their rules and regulations. But this wont satisfy, for in the end the rightness is not based on respect - instead it is founded on, "I'm right, you're wrong. Submit or be destroyed." Real honour is not prejudiced... It respects one's person with or without agreement - so long as that respect is returned - then if one repeatedly refuses to be honourable they can and should be- eliminated. I can deal with this... So should we not be even more poised to embrace Honour now, when such tolerance abounds? ::sighs:: BUT... We live in a time of ME. When the self, "I", the ego - is glorified. This tolerance seems to come not from respect, but from the simple practical need to live next to all the other MEs without conflict... without destroying each other. Perhaps this struggle will become too tiring... Perhaps there will be a mass epiphany... Mmmm... ...Perhaps.