From Huter der Irminsul
“For the good of the German people”—these words should be more than just a formula in an oath. They stand for responsibility, for duty, and for the promise to serve humanity and protect it from harm.
The ancients believed that an oath was sacred. Not because ink on paper made it significant, but because a person’s word determined their worth. An oath was a bond, an honor, and a responsibility. Whoever broke it lost more than trust—they lost a part of their dignity.
And today?
Perhaps the most dangerous development is not anger. Not conflict. Not differing opinions. The greatest danger begins where people stop believing that words still carry weight. Where promises are made, but no one expects them to be kept. Where trust slowly dies—not loudly, but day by day.
Justice does not mean that the powerful can do as they please while the people silently bear the consequences. Responsibility does not end with an election, and an oath does not end with the spoken sentence.
A people has the right to ask questions. A people has the right to criticize. And a people has the right to demand accountability.
For whoever makes a promise must be held accountable. Words without deeds are merely shadows—and shadows do not build a future.
And woe to him who breaks his oath.
The ancients said:
“A sword can be reforged. A house can be rebuilt. But a broken word leaves a crack that even time does not always heal.”
Perhaps therein lies a message that still holds true today: A people does not live on walls, wealth, or power. It lives on trust. And when words lose their value, something begins to break that no gold or strength in the world can replace.
My Reaction to Huter
We no longer live in a high trust society. There are many reasons; differing religions, races, cultures, ideologies. But one of the most glaring is the failure of those in authority to keep their word. Elected officials are required to swear an oath of allegiance to the Constitution. Once elected, they routinely violate that oath. Election promises become mere blather to trick the voter with no intention of ever being kept (I’m talking to you, Donald J. Trump as well as the rest).
And woe to him who breaks his oath? Not today. We fail to hold anyone accountable for their violations and lies. Until we do, all of us will continue to suffer and they will continue to gain power and riches.
We must return to The Old Ways, to Folkishness. We begin by withdrawing our support for and obedience to such people. We begin by keeping our own words and speaking truth. It’s a start.
10 responses to “Loss of Trust”
Until the first punch is thrown, it’s all bluster and chest pounding. But a 600 lb gorilla is legitimately scary, dangerous and capable of wicked carnage when provoked. A strategic plan is essential. Interesting times be these. IMO
All I will say, is what is the penalty for treason?
Re-election it would seem.
A scenario for your consideration:
A town meeting is held. In an open forum of discussion, a man stands up and declares that he trusts Donald J. Trump and believes everything that he tells the American people.
Will you follow that man who will blindly follow Trump? Will you have any respect for him?
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What does your heart tell you about the future of this nation?
Family and friends are those people. They parrot the required propaganda; they were tested, jabbed, boosted, masked and tracked during covid too. My heart says there are less than 5% of the population cynical, objective and aware enough to know the nation is kaput. Best I can do is attempt to find like minded allies in meat space so that when the SHTF, I may have a tiny chance of fighting alongside someone who can laugh at the doom with me.
As I see it, oaths don’t mean anything, because there’s negative outcomes for breaking them. Oath of citizenship, oath of office, Hippocratic Oath, all of these are broken daily with no consequence. This country was founded by men who risked their “..lives…fortunes, and sacred honor.” Several of them lost all that, and still kept faith with their oath. No wonder we’ve become a third-world low trust society.
NO negative consequences…D’oh
Remember the clusterf*** when Biden pulled out of Afghanistan? One man … one, in a position of consequence did something about it. Marine Lt. Col Stuart Scheller not only criticized the failure of leadership, he offered to lead folks demanding those responsible be held to account. Remember the result for his doing the next right and honorable thing? The brig, drummed out of the Corps, lost his career, his pension, and even his wife deserted him. All for doing what every other officer should have been doing but didn’t.
His oath was important to him. We have rare American heroes in our day. Lt. Col Stuart Scheller is one.
I had completely overlooked that story. Thank you for pointing it out.
A Man’s oath used to mean something, his word was his bond. Even if it was to his own detriment, he would keep that oath. No written contract was more binding than one’s honor. One did not need negative consequences to threaten his keeping of his oaths. Just knowing he was an oath-breaker was to bring shame upon himself and make him a liar and not one to be trusted. In other words, it made him a lawyer.
Now, we are governed by oathbreaking lawyers. Their rot has permeated society down to the very floor of humanity.
Riddle me this, What group has more lawyers than any other in the world? The group that lives by a book that tells them it is okay to lie to people who are not in their group, as anyone not in their group is no better than cattle.