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04/29/01 09:30 PM: So, a week or so
So, a week or so ago I decided I would run for the office of President of my school’s National Honor Society. This will be rough, as I’m sure all my readers know how school elections go. I am convinced that it would be eaiser to win a seat in the United States Congress than it is to win any sort of student/school election.
A lot of people I know who are in NHS don’t like the motto of nobless oblige. What that means is something along the lines of the following: “Kind and generous behaviour considered to be the responsibility of persons of high birth or rank.” It traces back to the Feudal system; The obligations to the commoners that the nobles were supposed to be tending to. Nobless Oblige was the “I protect you” part of the “You pay me taxes and I protect you” feudal contract.
Just what we need in society today, more pompus rich people who think the world is theirs to screw with, you know? The catch is, to get the motto changed, it would mean getting the NHS National Council to vote to amend the national NHS constitution.
I’m considering having my campaign platform be reforming the society so it isn’t so elitist, starting with changing the motto. Out with Nobless Oblige, maybe replacing it with something like “Liberty through Service” or something. But… since all it boils down to is who can get more votes, I might have to relegate to a humorous non-issue speech just to get laughs. I don’t know. I know I could probabally gain maybe 10 votes with an Anti-Nobless Oblige speech. But then the NHS sponsor will probabally call me a Communist or something. I have heard she thinks that Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle was just Communist propaganda.
Go Propaganda!
