Our respect should be held as one of our most valuable gifts.
We must only bestow this most coveted gift upon the worthy for what we respect is what we become.
What we respect, we admire, and those we admire are used by the unconscious to form our ego-ideal.
So those who give their respect promiscuously are those who know not what they value and thus where they strive.
A man without a direction or an ideal to strive for is a man who suffers meaninglessly.
We must be selective in what we value, respect, and admire, for this is what will unconsciously direct us.
In today's promiscuous world the ideals of the great mother have come to reign.
Today, to be good is to be loving, pretty, touching, and compassionate; to be good is to be mother-like.
To this, I rebel screaming the words of Nietzsche, "It may be left to little maidens to say, 'good is what is pretty and touching'; to be really good is to be brave."
As men, as the warrior half of homo-sapiens, our virtue is not held in our purity or tenderness but in our ruggedness.
Thus our respect and admiration must be reserved for those few rugged men who nobly bear their weight.
If we admire the qualities of these rugged men then their qualities will be weaved into our ego-ideal and thus will become qualities we demand of ourselves.
So I shall forever reserve my respect for the daring, the brave, the bold, the resilient, the dutiful, the principled; for the dying breed of great men.
I shall forever reserve my respect for the few remaining warriors.
Emanuel Leutze - Washington Crossing the Delaware - 1851
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