“Rights mean you have a right to your life. You have a right to your liberty, and you should have a right to keep the fruits of your labor….I, in a way, don’t like to use those terms: gay rights, women’s rights, minority rights, religious rights. There’s only one type of right. It’s the right to your liberty.” ― Ron Paul
Rosanne Lindsay – Imagine a future with compulsory euthanasia. One day the government could mandate, “Let’s end global warming by cutting down on the number of old people.” And the citizenry would bow down to forced euthanasia because they are of one mind in the belief that they must do their duty in service to their country and “for the greater good.”
Sound crazy? Cultish?
This extreme scenario defines the conditions of the Hive Mind, a collective identity in which every decision you make is a committee act. Group think is cohesive intelligence over individual intellect, a super organism. Nobody wins and nobody loses. Everyone is the same. Everyone is dependent. Everything is provided by the hive.
The hive mind plays out in hive society as groups who petition the State for rights: gay rights, women’s rights, immigrant rights, a Parents Bill of Rights. People beg the State for permission without realizing the State can neither grant nor abolish ANY rights. Rights cannot be transferred from one person to another; they are “unalienable.” Rights come from “nature’s God” not from the State. States can only grant privileges that are abolished, amended, modified or expanded at the whim of the State.
The most basic Right, that of private property, begins with the self. You “own” your body and soul. A refusal to recognize this simple truth translates into the abolition of all private property, by extension. In an era of mandates, our foundational mission must be one of power – the Right to choose and the right to object to mandates.
Values vs. Morals; Privileges vs. Rights
Privileges and Rights can be understood in the same way as values and morals. A value is a subjective desire. A moral is an objective truth.
Charles Hugh Smith – The righteous disgust with the status quo that spawned the broad-based campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump is not unique to the U.S.Globally, those disenfranchised by the status quo–the unprivileged, or in Peggy Noonan’s phrase, the unprotected– are starting to express their discontent in the streets, in social media and in elections.
Simon Black – In the history of post-Norman monarchs in the UK there have been nine Henrys. Eight Edwards. Four Williams. Four Georges. And three Richards.