Josef Pieper on the source of man's rights...
Including the right to not be maimed, sterilized or killed by globalist-directed, State-sponsored, contractor-executed, biochemical warfare.
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Josef Pieper, writing in 1955:
…Man has inalienable rights because he is created a person by the act of God, that is, an act beyond all human discussion. In the ultimate analysis, then, something is inalienably due to man because he is creatura. Moreover, as creature, man has the absolute duty to give another his due. Kant has expressed this in the following manner: “We have a divine Sovereign, and his divine gift to man is man’s right.”
Now a person may very well consider this to be true and may even give it his unqualified consent, but he may nevertheless discover that he himself finds it difficult to draw the conclusion that man’s right is unimpeachable because he is created by God. Pious declamation on solemn occasions is not enough. Fundamental truths must constantly be pondered anew lest they lose their fruitfulness. In this lies the significance of meditation: that truth may not cease to be present and effective in the active life.
Perhaps when all the consequences of a false presupposition suddenly become a threat men in their great terror will become aware that it no longer possible to call back to true and effective life a truth they have allowed to become remote — just for the sake of their survival.
Finally, it is no longer completely fantastic to think that a day may come when not the executioners alone will deny the existence of inalienable rights of men, but when even the victims will not be able to say why it is that they are suffering injustice… (pp. 51-52)
Excerpt from The Four Cardinal Virtues, a 1966 book collecting Pieper’s essays on prudence, fortitude, justice and temperance.
Pieper is a writer whose work heavily influences my understanding of the historical and theological moment in which we live.
I think one of the most important changes that the globalists made to society over the past century — mostly through educational systems and what Gen-Xers like me learned to call political correctness and moral relativism and dozens of other terms as the ideologies gathered force in the 1980s and 1990s — was to instill in human minds an inability to think of anything in the world as unequivocably true or false.
The destruction of concepts of truth and falsity has been very good for liars.
It’s helped them seed their lies throughout human institutions without detection or push-back.
Without clear, well-formed access to categories of true and false, an individual human being has no basis upon which to make moral judgments about the rightness and wrongness of his own acts and omissions, or acts and omissions taken by others.
Such thoughts are rendered almost completely unthinkable.
Without the categories of true and false, and the basis for moral judgments of right and wrong, humans are also cut off from legal recourse to human justice systems.
Because human justice systems — with their evidentiary rules and adversarial argument structures — are more or less faithful reflections of the whole human story, which is a laborious struggle against error, temptation and sin, aimed at moving toward closer union with eternal Truth: God.
Reducing and in many cases eliminating the human capacity to discern and speak truth, and the capacity to clearly refute false statements, lies, deceptions, has been a very effective way for globalists to disable and disarm the victims of the executioners.
They strangled a great deal of potential resistance in the cradle of the mind.
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