這個網站上充斥着對於貴族精神的崇拜。“富人之偉大” “西洋飲食文明”“上層社會的正直”“騎士的勇敢”“高貴的血統”等等譜寫了一曲對於盎格魯撒克遜古今貴族的溢美之歌。

看見我手臂上的雞皮疙瘩了嗎？

這些貴族崇拜者們聲稱中國的精英們一向缺乏文明，沒有脊梁骨，精神上營養不良。中華文明不過是敗壞的道德和精明，可悲！

求助：我無法解釋為何高貴的貴族世襲制度會被歐洲大部分國家廢除。貴族世襲體系在1789年和1848年的法國大革命之中被廢除，在1795年被荷蘭廢除。貴族的所有特權在1919年被德國魏瑪共和國禁止。貴族體系在1917年被俄國的二月革命所推翻。 在美利堅合眾國的立國憲法裡有個附加條款 （酬薪條款），明確規定：

“美國不允許貴族名稱的賜予。任何公職人員不得在沒有國會允許的情況下接受任何國王的貴族名分的賜予.”

這項禁令道出了美國精神的精髓，美國的貴族只能由才華，美德和貢獻來形成，而不是世襲。“法蘭克林和華盛頓不需要加冕的榮耀，耀眼的頭銜和生而具有的顯赫來證明自己。 平等權利禁止區分共和之公民之貴賤。” Jeffersonian St. George Tucker (1803)

在歐洲歷史上貴族從來就不是社會進步的動力。恰恰相反，貴族是阻撓社會正義和平等，毒化道德的可怕勢力。它是建立在對於廣大出身卑賤人民的奴役之上，只效忠於皇室特權。貴族精神和基督教里的憐憫，謙卑和寬恕並不兼容。 基督教的施捨是無條件的，謙卑的。而貴族的慈悲是傲慢的，同情是居高臨下的，善意是自私的。 貴族的溫文爾雅是城堡里的行為規範， 貴族的慷慨是作秀式的，為的是證明自己通過世襲得來的財富和權利的合法性。

狄更斯曾經說過：“用金錢買來的文明一般不會延伸到一無所有者。”

一語成讖！

對於普通者來說，“尊貴”在於我們能夠履行我們的社會和家庭責任，保持人品和操守。富人致力於慈善就體現了尊貴，窮人自食其力也體現了“尊貴。”

尊貴也屬於那些不拿自己的文明價值體系做浮士德交易的人們。

可這裡有些博客就違背了這些準則，他們玷污了做人的尊嚴。

See the goose bumps on my arms?

The Chinese elitist class, on the other hand, is devoid of civility, spiritually spineless and intellectually malnourished. The Chinese civilization represents nothing other than rotten morality and crooked wisdom. Alas!

But how can we reconcile the aristocratic nobility with its historical ban by most European countries and America? The Hereditary title system was abolished in France by Revolutions of 1789 and 1848;  it was abolished in 1795 in Netherland, all legal privileges of the nobility were officially abolished in 1919 in Germany by the Weimar Republic. The nobility was overthrown by the February Revolution of 1917 in Russia. In the United States, the hereditary title is legally prohibited by the so-called Emoluments Clause of the Constitution:

“No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

This prohibition on titles pointed to the essence of American spirit: the American society should be led by a natural aristocracy based on talent, virtue, and accomplishment, not by a hereditary aristocracy based on birth.  "A Franklin, or a Washington, need not the pageantry of honours, the glare of titles, nor the pre-eminence of station to distinguish them....Equality of rights...precludes not that distinction which superiority of virtue introduces among the citizens of a republic." - Jeffersonian St. George Tucker (1803).

The aristocracy was never a driving force for social progresses in the European history, they were a formidable force impeding the social justice, undermining equality and poisoning the social morality. It was built upon the serfdom of the vast underprivileged of mean birth. It served the privileged royalties. Aristocratic spirit was not congruent to the virtues of misricordia(mercy), humilitas(humility) and clementia (forgiveness) embodied in Christianity. Christian passion to help is unconditional and humble but the aristocratic “mercy” is arrogant, sympathy is condescending and goodwill is self-serving.  Aristocratic civility and generosity are a stage show to legitimize its rights and wealth gained through peerage.

Charles Dickens once says; “The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.”

It is still true, isn’t it?

For an ordinary individual like you and me, noble spirit is to fulfill our social and family responsibilities and to maintain integrity and morality. It is noble for the rich to be charitable and for the poor to be self-reliant.

Nobility belongs to those who are not making Faustian deals on own civilization.

But some bloggers have besmirched nobility by choosing otherwise.

Shame on you!