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The Transition From Human Rights to Privileges and Special Benefits

2/27/2021

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In yesterday's post I argued that the era of human rights - which has its modern origins in the Enlightenment declarations and revolutions of the late eighteenth century and provided the foundations of Western secular liberalism and democracy - is over.

The concept of universal human rights is based on the belief that they are inalienable, fundamental rights to which all human beings everywhere are entitled from the moment they are born until the moment they die. Though human rights are generally considered to be inviolable, they are essentially a legal concept. As such, they can be suspended or taken away through various means - legal or otherwise - in response to due process or extraordinary circumstances.

Over the past year, the birdemic has been hysterically promoted as an example of an extraordinary circumstance requiring the suspension of many inalienable and fundamental human rights. The perceived extreme risk of the birdemic to human health and safety made the suspension of human rights a relatively easy affair for governments and corporations the world over. Most common people were only too willing to "temporarily" suspend their inalienable rights in an effort to protect their lives and the lives of others. 

This willingness to sacrifice would not necessarily be a bad thing in and of itself if the societies in which we live and the powers that rule over us were aligned with good; more specifically, if they were honest, ethical, and moral; even more specifically, aligned with the primacy of the spiritual. Of course, if we lived in societies like that, the birdemic never would have developed in the manner that it has. Perhaps it wouldn't have appeared at all.  

Unfortunately, the powers ruling over us are aligned with forces opposed to God, and the societies in which we live are demotivated, alienated, despairing, and severely maladaptive. Thus, the current suspension of our "inalienable and fundamental human rights" - regardless of their glaring insincerity and obviously "problematic" origin - will certainly become permanent. Whatever rights are permitted to re-enter common understanding from here forward will be termed "privileges" and "special benefits."

The real-time abolition of human rights we are experiencing stems from currently unfolding re-definitions and re-conceptualizations of what a human being actually is as well as what a human being is entitled to be and do. Although these new definitions are essentially being forced from the top, their success relies greatly on the consent and readiness of people to accept them at the bottom. If the birdemic has proved anything, it is this - modern people are ready to accept anything. 

This readiness is most apparent in the aforementioned re-conceptualization of humanity. In the here and now, human beings are basically infectious bio-hazards - biological substances that  pose a significant health risk to other biological substances. As such, they must be curtailed, contained, restricted, and neutralized. The only way to ensure the containment and neutralization of the threat these biological hazards pose is through a complex and intricate system of testing, tracking, and tracing leading to the establishment of safe environments, thereby offsetting the risk each bio-hazard potentially carries. 

The paragraph above not only encapsulates the official re-definition of humanity, but also reflects the manner in which most individual human beings have redefined themselves. This re-definition renders all previous perceptions and declarations of human rights moot. Bio-hazards possess no inalienable, fundamental rights; at best, they can be granted privileges and special benefits.

Hence, mundane activities such as eating in a restaurant, attending a concert, or traveling to another country will no longer be listed as rights, but rather as privileges and special benefits. Bio-hazards that refuse to be neutralized, monitored, tracked, and traced, will be barred from most, if not all, privileges and benefits, which may eventually be expanded to include other seemingly mundane activities such as using public transportation, attending school, accessing public health services, and, yes, being employed.

People who agree to be neutralized, tracked, monitored, and traced are generally motivated by the hope that submitting to such measures will help everything return to normal. At the same time, the possibility that eager submission to the neutralization measures actually decreases the likelihood of a return to normal are rarely, if ever, considered.

But they should be. After all, submission amounts to confirmation. By agreeing to be neutralized, people are agreeing with their new classifications as bio-hazards. They are basically declaring that they need to be controlled, contained, tracked, traced and so forth. Sadly, all of this also paves the way for potential expansions in the definition of humans as hazards.

Today we are merely bio-hazards, but tomorrow we will identified as eco-hazards. The day after that, psycho-social hazards. Each expansion of the newly adopted hazard definition will, inevitably, necessitate further restrictions and curtailments, all in the cause of implementing safe environments.

​As is the case now, rights will not enter into the equation, but the promise of privileges and special benefits will surely be offered to those who enthusiastically get with the program.

Note added: This post does not advocate for a return to the "normal" world of human rights, but is rather an attempt to draw an attention to the underlying spiritual implications of the current shift away from human rights. 

Further note added: Just for the sake of clarity, I do not believe in the concept of universal human rights, neither the conventional ones enshrined in the fundamental documents of Western democracies, nor in the more contemporary ones that vociferously defend the various profane rights of perceived victim groups the Establishment champions.

​Human rights have been an absolute disaster right from the start. Privileges and special benefits are merely extensions of that absolute disaster in a severely restricted form with the clear potential for even greater levels of disaster in the offing.  All of it is evil abstraction. 
11 Comments
Lady Mermaid link
2/28/2021 02:05:46

If you study history, secular liberalism has always had a totalitarian streak. The French Revolution began as a bloodbath leading to the Reign of Terror & the despotism of Napoleon. The American Revolution by contrast was a much tamer event but it still fell apart in a bloody civil war less than a century later. The triumph of liberal democracy itself was not due to organic development or reasonable debate but Europe destroying itself in a pointless war.

Liberalism tried to wear a "mask" of tolerance and limited government but that mask has been dropped at times (Ex: War on Terror). 2020 was the final drop of this mask. I don't think it will ever come back on.

I don't know what will come next. Many have become disillusioned with the system. We must figure how to take that disillusionment into a spiritual reawakening.

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Francis Berger
2/28/2021 09:50:12

@ Lady Mermaid - The totalitarian streak you mention has now been fully implemented. Western secular liberalism was a massive wrong turn from a spiritual perspective, but there's not much point ruminating about Western liberalism anymore. The experiment has ended. In this I completely agree with you.

The end of the human rights system that began in the late 1700's offers us another opportunity collectively. As things stand right now, I don't think we will make the correct choices collectively. But that doesn't prevent individuals from making the correct choices individually. Whether these correct individual choices lead to any sort of spiritual awakening remains to be seen, but one must hope.

The main obstacle to spiritual awakening are systems themselves. I may be wrong about this, but I think a true spiritual awakening at the collective can only happen in some sort of post-system scenario.

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Craig Anderson
3/4/2021 19:44:24

"spiritual awakening at the collective can only happen in some sort of post-system scenario" I see only so far as a spiritual split has happened and an alternative system is being created. In the group I work with, it is believed that the controllers of the current system, expect this system split, want it, and will support and allow it to a point.

Ingemar
3/1/2021 18:11:57

Chris Ferrara (author of <i>Liberty: The God That Failed</i>) calls this the "one revolution" principle. Liberals overthrow the social order once and any uprising that happens afterwards (even ones that hew to the same principles that the original revolution had) is illegitimate because it is an attack on liberty.

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Michelle
2/28/2021 04:04:58

The last thing I said to my best friend before all of our discussions became only about the weather, I told him that he is not going to like the world he is participating in creating. Then he told me the Bible is a novel and is equivalent to 50 shades of grey as far as books go.

But the more I reflect on that final phrase of any substance that I uttered to him 4 months ago, I think I may have been wrong. Not only do I think he will like the world on the other side, but he craves it and will feel secure in it.

Under the guise of morality and love, the birdemic and the "necessary" actions were pushed by people who hate themselves, hate everyone else, and hate God's creation. Since so many people, particularly in the media, academia, government, and in the large population centers also hate themselves and others, they were all too happy to comply with the narrative and actions. Finally, they could openly hate their neighbor and call it love. They don't want it to go back to "normal".

The people who think their rights are coming back will eventually either forget they had rights, or will be as disappointed as finding out their votes actually don't matter- but then accept it and go on with their lives.

Billy Idol's "eyes without a face" is playing on repeat in my mind....got no human grace....

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Francis Berger
2/28/2021 10:03:17

@ Michelle - "The people who think their rights are coming back will eventually either forget they had rights, or will be as disappointed as finding out their votes actually don't matter- but then accept it and go on with their lives."

Yes - it's happening as we speak, and it's exactly what the powers that should not be want. Unfortunately, the lives they will want to go on with will be curtailed in ways they can barely imagine, making it nearly impossible to "go on" with anything meaningful.

"Then he told me the Bible is a novel and is equivalent to 50 shades of grey as far as books go."

I consider these sorts of utterances to be divine gifts because they save me a great deal of time and energy when it comes to discernment.

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Serhei
2/28/2021 05:27:07

“People who agree to be neutralized, tracked, monitored, and traced are generally motivated by the hope that submitting to such measures will help everything return to normal. At the same time, the possibility that eager submission to the neutralization measures actually decreases the likelihood of a return to normal are rarely, if ever, considered.”

I think this statement summarizes an issue so clearly I can even risk trying it on people I know. But of course, there is the problem that people only have the vaguest clue of what kind of ‘normal’ it is they want... of course for many people around me ‘normal’ involves office work (not very laudable) and in-person education (meh) and mingling with crowds of people in pubs and restaurants (more laudable), but I would ask *is that it*? In other respects people would need to acknowledge all the myriad ways their lives were not normal in the first place, ways that would have to be fixed at the cost of great change and conflict to society. Was office work ‘normal’? What about what passes for ‘education’? Were these things on a trajectory of improvement? Did these things allow people to lead meaningful lives, raise families in a timely fashion, and so forth? If they didn’t, why would people want them back hard enough to resist the lockdowns even minimally? Absent some knowledge of what we want instead, there is no agreement to stop going through the motions of what we don’t want.

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Francis Berger
2/28/2021 09:41:13

@ Serhei - Good comment. When I think about what was considered normal, Thoreau's line about quiet lives of desperation comes to mind because in my experience that was what normal was for most people before the birdemic. I guess desperation is better than despair. The desire for a return to normal is likely little more than a yearning for a return to the sense of psuedo-freedom people experienced while living within those conditions. As potentially enslaving as the former "human rights, Western liberal, etc" system was, it was less oppressive than what has come to the fore now, so I can understand people who would prefer to return to normal rather than remain in some form of this "new normal". Having said all of that, the core of your comment addresses motivation/meaning/purpose - and you're right; modern people do not know what they want, which helps explain why they will accept anything. None of this can be resolved without addressing the metaphysical assumption most moderns hold. As for normal - it's already behind us. There's no way it will be permitted to return, regardless of how much people do or do not want it.

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Francis Berger
3/4/2021 19:53:36

@ Craig Anderson - I assume you are referring to the US. Or does what you suggest have implications in other places as well?

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Craig Anderson
3/5/2021 05:31:25

I live in Colorado. The group I'm part of is Beartaria. There is a web magazine here. https://beartariatimes.com/ There are people I have met close by. There are online social platforms. Online, I've talked to people in U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia and Europe. So I have some evidence these concepts are not just in the U.S.
Human rights from God vs. Man made privilege and benefits resonates with me. 2020 was all about making the choice clear to those who can see.
"the controllers of the current system, expect this system split, want it, and will support and allow it to a point."
This is my thought and congruent with many I know in Beartaria.
It is commonly thought that these "Great Reset"s are cyclic, but are seen more in myth/legend, than acceptable history books.

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Francis Berger
3/5/2021 18:03:52

@ Craig - That's an interesting site. Thanks for sharing.


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