What's wrong with human rights?

What's wrong with human rights?

September 9, 2024.

Introduction.

As I never tire of saying, all of our current cultural difficulties and

challenges are the result of a pitched battle over editorial control of the dictionary.

Everything comes down to that. He who defines wins. This goes down to the pronouns and outward and upward to the overall narrative. It includes the Jots and Tittle said it includes the entire novel. He Who Defines Wins. He who Names Wins.

Teddy Roosevelt once talked about weasel words, the same way that weasles were purported to

suck eggs, so also the purveyors of weasel words bite off one

into the word and then suck all the content out of them.

When all is said and done, you still have something that looks like an egg and is shaped like an egg.

It is just that nothing of substances there anymore.

So these people who are wanting to rename the world are guilty of two great offenses.

First, they want to assume to themselves the right to name things they have no right to name and

secondly if they get far enough along with their misbegotten venture we discover

how bad they are in naming what would you make of someone who walked into your

house pointed at your third child there in the high chair, and said,

his name shall no longer betray.

One of the other kids, not knowing that you shouldn't encourage this sort of behavior, blurted out,

what should his name be then? If the reply was something like

Wieselwirt, you would then have two issues on the table. The first has to do with why a stranger

thought he had the right to rename your kid. The second would be to ask why he thought he had the right to name

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