The Fantasy of Noblesse Oblige

'It is easier for Camel to enter the needle ear than Wealthy to enter God's country.' This Bible phrase is often cited when referring to Wealthy's Morality. Wealthy's heavenly journey is impossible and impossible, so who wants to be Wealthy, but people do not hide their desire for matter.

The study of Wealthy's ethical behavior, published in the 2012 Journal of the American Academy of Sciences by the UC Berkeley Social Psychology Research Group, is significant in that regard. Wealthy is three to four times more likely to engage in unethical behavior than the poor, and is also independent of age, gender, political orientation and religion. If the motivation for delinquency in the lower class is due to the desire to resolve the sense of alienation or deprivation and to meet the deficiency, the derailment motivation of the upper class is derived from the desire to show off that the intense stimulus or adventure impulse, or the power and status of the lower class are common to the relative weak.

In the words of the researchers, it is interesting to see if the higher class could have enjoyed wealth and status because of Baro’s unethical behavior, and perhaps it may be doubtful that the study was intended to prove the conventional preconceptions about Wealthy. In the end, the Noblesse Oblivion, which means a moral obligation corresponding to a high social status, may be an anti-capitalist fantasy to rationalize the envy of Wealthy.

Tolstoy is the practitioner of the 'Noblesse Oblige' in the literary world. However, Baro was also in the richness because he had a little antipathy while looking around Yasnayapoljana, Tolstoy's birthplace and posthumous haven. The reason why I compare Dostoski, a surviving writer who had to write constantly while suffering from gambling debt and emotional anxiety, was the envy of an aristocratic writer who had everything. Tolstoy, in his youth, had once been in a profligate life, and his extraordinary point would be the liberation of serfdom, enlightenment education, and the practice of dreaming of a peace community.

Tolstoy’s greatness, as it was not necessary to add words to the greatness of literature, would be that the greatness of human Tolstoy had burned down the unethical attitude and the will to break down the blindness as a wealth and position acquired by birth. This is why every time the inconsistent words and actions of the upper class are revealed, they are reminded of Tolstoy.

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