Greetings, people of the Hexbearteriat,
In 2018, I confronted a potential familial disappointment—typical bourgeois drama of "career" and "personal fulfillment." After my courtship failed to bear fruit, I sought wisdom and solace in my poetry and fine wine.
Alas, being cut off by my Lord Father and being unlikely to inherit, I sought new opportunities within the Ducal Guard. While my sympathies lie with my burgher brothers, and their pursuit of property and riches do offend my noble sensibilities, I still found myself needing of their advice and patronage.
What irony that the Ducal Guard exists to protect the prestige and property of both burgher rights and those born with noble privilege! The shame and bizarre transition where wealth and not lineage dictate the future will always confound me!
I ultimately ventured my service into the Ducal Guard not for vulgar financial gain, but to restore my honor (and avoid becoming a bishop!) and secure my place in court.
The initial compensation was meager in coin but plentiful in dignity, yet with years of loyalty compensation has achieved parity with dignity.
(Unlike the bourgeois who worship spreadsheets, we aristocrats understand service transcends mere compensation.)
I shall entertain your provincial inquiries. Do proceed, but mind your manners.
Yours Truly,
Jean Deaux, Page of Chevalier Gilles de Rais.
A year ago criticism of the occupation and genocide was political blasphemy but the protests and activism has started trends in these states to lay the groundwork to "always have been against this". These states aren't real democracies; they are class dictatorships violently repressing , covertly and overtly, the dissent of their own citizenry.
The truth of the matter is that these states are losing the facade of human rights, democracy, and freedom to favor Israel. These are the expositions of the obsolescence of liberal democracy to respond to the demands of the people in an immediate sense; only delegates can act within the boundaries of the state and the people have no access to the levers of power except for voting for delegates - pre-compromised by their own interests and influences - who make decisions on behalf of their constituencies with nothing to compel them but a whim.
The state has expended its tools in suppressing these dissidents. The dissidents delegitimize the state through the persistence of protesting, activism, and engaging in direct action to express discontent and publicly decry the illegitimate action by the state.