Respect

The several definitions of respect:

1.esteem for or a sense of the worth or excellence of a person, a personal quality or ability, or something considered as a manifestation of a personal quality or ability: I have great respect for her judgment.

2.deference to a right, privilege, privileged position, or someone or something considered to have certain rights or privileges; proper acceptance or courtesy; acknowledgment: respect for a suspect's right to counsel; to show respect for the flag; respect for the elderly.

3.the condition of being esteemed or honored: to be held in respect.

unfortunately, respect within this society seems to be directed in all the wrong places, or is non existent.

But in those rare moments where it is where it should be and is alive and blossoming, I smile. And for a while I feel like humanity isn't degrading itself into the lower stoops of our reconstructed timeline.
I think the romantics were right.