Honorability
A word that we have all heard and used many times, although I think that, in reality and in view of the facts, quite a few do not really know what its true or complete scope and meaning is. On the other hand, the word itself, perhaps because of its roots, imprints a certain character and can even impress.
According to the RAE dictionary, this term means "quality of an honorable person". A brief definition that really does not provide much clarity to those who are interested in knowing its true value. Therefore, we must turn again to the dictionary to find the meaning of honorable; term, which in relation to the person says that "is attributed or granted to anyone who is honest and therefore deserves the respect or esteem of others".
This last question is of utmost importance and interest since it pairs respect for people with honorability and therefore it is easily deducible that one of the main causes of the destruction and lack of respect and esteem among human beings comes precisely from the absence or scarcity of honorability in some of them.
Furthermore, to avoid any misinterpretation or free interpretation in any other sense that is far from reality and in order to complete the analysis of the term under study, I think we should analyze what the repeatedly mentioned dictionary defines as honest, which is something like "one who acts uprightly, fulfilling his duty and in accordance with morality, especially with regard to respect for the property of others, transparency in business, etc.".
Once the circle of the definition and the delimitation of the meaning and scope of the terms and nuances related to honorability is closed, it is easy to understand that in order to act in accordance, it is essential to be honorable; which necessarily implies being honest, fulfilling one's duty, acting under the precepts of a straight and perfectly understood morality and being especially respectful with the rest regarding transcendental factors of personal, moral and social life or relationship.
It is precisely because of the strict requirements of honorability that it is not very easy to find a large number of honorable people in society; although on second thought, and according to the characteristics described in the previous paragraphs, proportionally speaking, there should be many more among those who constantly say and proclaim that they devote their life and work to the service of others, the politicians.
Once again, reality forces us to put our feet on the ground and realize who we are, where we are, where we are headed and whose and how our steps in political, labor and social life are leading us. When we ask ourselves such questions, many of us think that the world is upside down, and it is not true. We are the ones who insist on changing it to our liking or convenience in order to obtain personal, party, guild or family benefits without giving a damn about what this may imply.
Once in the flour, a malevolent plan has been drawn up and the necessary support has been obtained in order to achieve the objective sought, those who have little or no honor do not care at all about changing or repealing the initial ideology and forgetting all those promises that have been kept and rehashed during the campaigns; promises that led them to occupy a position for which, if we look at it carefully, they were not elected because of their final way of acting.
There are many of us who constantly denounce attitudes close to true despots and dictators when we refer to certain leaders who, as if they were true and consummate satraps, direct our designs. We shield ourselves in reproaching their bad practices when they exercise economic, political or social power in an abusive manner and their bad moral character. But really, there are many, perhaps too many, citizens who accept without complaint all that and much more, and even go so far as to force them to be manipulated, deceived and managed at the whim of those perverse and evildoers who try, under our noses, to turn everything upside down, to send it to the bottom based on twisted or perverse actions, taking advantage of shortcuts or in the middle of the night.
The typical cliché that previous times were better and that there are no more politicians or leaders of the stature of those once successful characters anywhere in the world is not a cliché, it is a true reality. But many of us forget that those who exercise power over us and manage our lives come from our own social ranks, are or have been fellow students, ideas, hobbies and even have belonged or belong to our most intimate circles of friends or family entity; people who act and think or did so in a not too distant time as we ourselves did. In short, they are part of our environment and social status.
Voluntarily or involuntarily, we have let them grow and increase their drift; looking the other way, laughing at them for what we considered to be a simple grace, a lack of experience or a small perversity. Also, we supported them at the time even though we did not think the same way because we firmly believed that the water that flowed from their ideas would never form a river. Those of us who, with the passage of time and once the spider web is mounted, continue to support their outrages because we are now prisoners of their well-woven and entangled perks; we fell into them out of sympathy or for a small salary, help or benefit that prevents us from seeing their perversity with all its hardness and clarity.
Today, incredibly and in spite of all the serious things that have recently happened and are still unfinished at local, national and world level, according to the recent unappealable results, it seems that it is very easy to let ourselves be convinced, deceived and dragged to applaud what only a few months ago was impossible to even imagine, let alone mention.
We have been promised everything, we were convinced of their submission and compliance to a series of principles from which they were never going to and could never get rid of; Today all of them have been put aside, relegated to nostalgia or to the hardest and cruelest oblivion or contempt as if they were something obsolete and even inhuman or illegal and we are insisted that we have the obligation to abjure our principles, to forgive those punished for attempting coups d'état, terrorists, those who want to break Spain into a thousand pieces and thank our leaders for having had enough foresight and will to discover and show us the path that leads us to harmony, forgiveness and prosperity.
Some seem to resist to so much change, they do not accept the absurd and excessive pretensions of those who only seek to modify the laws and the uses and customs without justifying it; and furthermore, because they do it by the shortest, forced and even alegal way when it is necessary; using all kinds of subterfuges, tricks, deceits or measures in disuse protected in old and obsolete laws that have been parked in the legislation since times that have nothing to do with the current reality.
But, despite the existence of the very unhappy, that the problem is frankly dangerous and real and knowing that, quantitatively, are more those who do not accept a solution so unnatural and purely inquisitorial; all these disgruntled, are unable to join forces and march together in a single party or coalition that can truly oppose the greatest perversity and corruption that has lived in Spain since the second republic and the civil war of 1936.
Some of these parties, oblivious to so much abrupt change and return to situations that are much better to forget, have played an uncertain, fickle role, in constant unstable balance and in search of an opportunity; their own vanity and by putting themselves so often in profile when they should have maintained a truly firm position, have led them to be diluted like sugar cubes in a hot tea to be absorbed by the nearest extremes and to disappear or to become something anecdotal or residual.
In these times and not only in Spain, although here we have our own great cross of stone, wood and metal; there are many examples in which unnatural alliances between parties and political tendencies are seen with all naturalness for the mere fact of maintaining the seat of power for a few more months or years; it does not matter to ally with the parties that intend to dissolve the State or that attack it from all sides, nor to pay hard and villainous tolls, that nobody in life would have been able to imagine, to overthrow the opposite and occupy their position with arrogance and indignity.
They lie and deceive assiduously and easily; everything is turned around; what yesterday was pure white, today is jet black and nothing happens for saying it without changing their faces, with cynicism and arguments so fallacious and childish that they make laugh to those who really pretend to analyze the change of position and know the truth.
The bad times, wrong decisions or adversity are always given to an alien and diverse paternity; invented "committees of experts" appear as the culprits of what is going wrong; but when the news is good or hopeful, the government runs to the screens and interviews to star in them, although in these as in the others, its degree of intervention and responsibility is more or less equal.
Ministers are replaced even though things are going badly and this is not the most opportune moment to change, attempts are made to overthrow subordinate governments with lies and nightmares, the government and the promised policy are abandoned when only a year ago his presence in the front row was essential because without him and his ideas nothing could be done to save Spain and the poor, who now, after his departure, are many more.
Away from home, International Organizations such as the UN, NATO, the IMF and the EU itself, among others, have become a kind of Persian markets where the interests of certain countries, influence peddling and the need for survival prohibit any kind of corrective measures on countries governed by authentic satraps, novel characters and tyrants who deceive, persecute and kill their own and others.
Corrective measures are promised, such as the application of universal justice, the control of violators of peace, the banishment of communism and social and environmental abuses; all this disguised as goodism, feminism and cheap equality; but the reality is that it is all smoke and mirth.
It is not that there are no politicians and men full of national and international leadership, capable of moving the masses without the need to deceive them with perks or the promise that soon the manna will come. Nowadays, since almost all of them are false and full of personal rottenness, leaders tend to be quite ephemeral and therefore, those great "leaders" who moved mountains and raised the masses, move on to something else easily; they abandon politics without caring about everything that was said, promised and left behind and through the so-called revolving doors they are placed without any preparation in the big company, if possible state-owned, to live opulently off the backs of others.
It is sad to say it and much more to recognize it, in this changing and frankly ruthless world everything or almost everything has lost its value; the pillars that supported the great policies, alliances, economy and even religion have gradually cracked due to an individual and collective degradation of the degree and level of education, moral formation and respect for others. There is little left to hold on to, and it is precisely in this pestilent and sickly environment that the poor in spirit, the amoral and those who do not know the value of honorability grow stronger, appear, grow and multiply like mushrooms in a humeral.
They are capable of anything, ruthless and malevolent to the point of satiety; they stop at nothing and justify their perverse positions and actions with a smile, thus demonstrating that they care nothing for treacherous characters of whom, unfortunately, in Spain we know and have much more examples than the others.
Just today, without going any further, a whole elaborate and evil plan is being accelerated with a shameful theatrical intervention in Barcelona to justify the unjustifiable, a performance that not even the guild of those involved will attend; with an ignominious campaign against the State itself in Europe and with the attacks to unprotect the Constitutional. The bad thing about this is that it is not yet the end; there are still many dirty actions with serious consequences that we will see how they will end.