If “all men are created equal,” then John Wayne Gacy is the poster boy for daycare keepers.

Adolf Eichmann is the standard of polished gentlemanly service to God and state.

The beet-red grocery cart pusher with swollen black feet and a garbage bag shirt is the archetype of attainment.

Typhoid Annie is your waitress.

If you recoil, you recoil not from the idiocy of extreme examples of the idea, but from the idiocy that is toxically inherent in the idea itself, since without that, no such extreme examples of toxic idiocy would be possible. The idiocy isn’t resident in the examples; the examples are in exact compliance with the idea. The idiocy is resident, then, in the idea.

The idiot idea has been rampant in the world for centuries, held out to the world as a model of philosophical genius. But how else could it be, since if all are created equal, then the idiot is a genius, and so idiocy is genius.

Little despots, and the depraved, and the not-too-bright, and the unable love the idea, cling to the idea, praise the idea, feel threatened if the idea is questioned or challenged. It’s how they are able to get into positions of power enough to drag everything and everybody within the reach of their stolen power down to their level. It’s how the entire culture has been, and continues to be, dragged down toward a quagmire, a tar pit, of idiocy and depravity monitored by despotic and hate-filled little standing armies—whether in uniform or in gang colors.

It’s how universities get filled with degreed oafs who will teach exactly such idiocy as though it were genius.

It’s how education standards are whittled down daily toward the least “equal” of the “equal.” The incredible dullness and monotony of it all renders the bright and able, in their restlessness, candidates for the Wundtian despot down the hall, who is ready to dole out pills to bring them down closer to this week’s acceptable standard of “equal.” . . .

What Rights Are Right?

I’m going to revisit, only for a moment, the amazingly destructive primary premise of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights being foisted off on the world by the United Nations:

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

That is in the running for the single most deadly poisonous and evil dogma ever shoved down the throat of humankind.

Not only are useful standards of excellence and accomplishment and refinement practically eradicated from civilization and culture by such insanity, any thought of such standards is actively discouraged as being somehow “discriminatory,” or not politically correct, or somehow demeaning to some “equal” who has a divine “right” to feel “equalized” instead of challenged to achieve or aspire.

Dignity and respect are earned, not owed as a birthright. Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray, in their seminal work The Bell Curve, make the compelling and sensible case on the subject of human dignity:

The central measure of success for this government, as for any other, is to permit people to live lives of dignity—not to give them dignity, for that is not in any government’s power, but to make it accessible to all. That is one way of thinking about what the Founders had in mind when they proclaimed, as a truth self-evident, that all men are created equal. That is what we have in mind when we talk about valued places for everyone.

Inequality of endowments, including intelligence, is a reality. Trying to pretend that inequality does not really exist has led to disaster. Trying to eradicate inequality with artificially manufactured outcomes has led to disaster. It is time for America once again to try living with inequality, as life is lived: understanding that each human being has strengths and weaknesses, qualities we admire and qualities we do not admire, competencies and incompetences, assets and debits; that the success of each human life is not measured externally but internally; that of all the rewards we can confer on each other, the most precious is a place as a valued fellow citizen.

That rational approach allows for each to contribute to a society and a culture those talents, skills, abilities, and competencies of which he is endowed, without being held to some false and foolish “standard” that doesn’t exist, striving for the impossible Lockean delusion of “equality.”

Until all such Lockean poison is flushed from a culture’s system, it is a culture and a civilization that is dying a long, slow, agonizing death of systemic poisoning.

It is inarguable that all beings in this world have certain rights. That isn’t contested at all.

Certainly all human beings have rights to their own lives, rights to express themselves freely, rights to defend themselves, rights to procreate for the future of mankind, and rights to worship any faith or god they choose.

The key part of the equation that was entirely omitted by Locke, Jefferson, and the United Nations is that no such “rights” can possibly survive amongst mankind without equivalent responsibility and accountability in the exercise of such rights. That includes honesty and trust.

Rights are destroyed by dishonesty, lies, deceit, and duplicity used to accomplish the 180-degree opposite of human rights—but in the name of having “rights.” So it is terribly irresponsible to issue any declaration or list of “rights” without a balancing list of responsibilities that accompany such rights.

If all men have rights to their own lives, then all men have the responsibility not to destroy the lives of others.

If all men have the right to express themselves freely, then all men have the responsibility to allow others to express themselves freely.

If all men have the right to procreate for the future of mankind, then all men have the responsibility to support and protect procreation for the survival of the human race.

If all men have the right to defend themselves, then all men have the responsibility to support and protect the right to adequate self-defense.

If all men have the right to worship any faith or god they choose, then all men have the responsibility to preserve and defend the sanctity and safety of the religions and faiths of others.