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.
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.
This passage from Pieper's essay demonstrates today's predicament: "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…"
Last weekend Pres. Biden was awarded an honorary doctorate by Howard University, where he was the commencement speaker. The award was premised on the assertion Biden was an esteemed scholar. The scholar then exhorted the all black audience of graduates that white supremacy was the greatest threat to them and the rest of us. This from the man who praised KKK Senator Robert Byrd and bragged that his state, Delaware, was on the South's side in the Civil War.
That nobody got up and walked out on Biden is evidence even the victims will not be able to say why it is that they are suffering injustice.
Whoever speaks to another person--not simply, we presume, in spontaneous conversation but using well-considered words, and whoever in so doing is explicitly not committed to the truth--whoever, in other words, is in this guided by something other than the truth--such a person, from that moment on, no longer considers the other as partner, as equal. In fact, he no longer respects the other as a human person. From that moment on , to be precise, all conversation ceases; all dialogue and all communication come to an end.
—Josef Pieper
With truth dethroned and Plato’s revolution overturned, what public, and much of private discourse, amounts to now is psychological rape, with its participants both the rapists and the victims. Tony Annett is one such rapist, as well as all the other emasculated-pansy-serpent-men and Lilith-possessed defeminized women at, say, Where Peter Is and America Magazine and the various other covens of intellectual “progressive” sorcery. But it’s not just these leftist, godless, antichrist punks and witches on the “left,” for they are just the most noxious dregs. You also have the many “conservative orthodox Catholics” who promoted and still promote, in the face of the overwhelming evidence of harm and death, the time-release euthanasia shots by assuring themselves and others that they could play Russian Roulette “in good conscience.”
But thanks be to God there were those graced souls—many of them “spiritual but non religious”—who retained some level of Platonic love of truth, which, scandalously, can’t be said of so, so, so many American Catholics today, and thus could see ab initio that the whole pandemic was really a scamdemic, and that the vaccines were evil, even if they didn’t know yet know exactly how or why. Now we know how and why, because we sought to know, even in the face of the greatest propaganda psy-op ever orchestrated. Those who drank the kool aid then seem now to be confirmed in their sinful delusions, with even the “sudden death” of their loved ones unable to shock them out of them.
The abuse of political power is fundamentally connected with the sophistic abuse of the word, indeed finds in it the fertile soil in which to hide and grow and get ready, so much so that the latent potential of the totalitarian poison can be ascertained, as it were, by observing the symptom of the public abuse of language. The degradation, too, of man through man, alarmingly evident in the acts of physical violence committed by all tyrannies (concentration camps, torture), has its beginning, certainly much less alarmingly, at that almost imperceptible moment when the word loses its dignity.
We are living through a full-scale totalitarianism zombie apocalypse, a literal hell on earth: countless people, many young and healthy, are literally dropping dead, having been injected by a time-release euthanasia shot, with autopsy after autopsy revealing veins filled with grotesque blood clots, but the masses, including most Christians, just blink mindlessly, believing without question the most ridiculous and patent lies ever uttered—it’s due to the stress caused by anti-vaxers! It’s “sudden-adult-death-syndrome.” The western presstitutes decry “antisemitism” while they gleefully support Nazis in the Ukraine/NATO war of aggression against Russia, and the gay disco comedian installed by the Western cryptocracy to arm and protect them. Armed atheists stand outside of libraries to “protect” pedophiles from “conspiracy theorist right-wingers” so they can perform lewd acts in front of children—with their parents watching and smiling. Anyone who dares to claim that a man can’t become a women and vice versa, or that the anus is not a sex organ is considered both insane and morally deranged, even “unChristian.” Did I say that this is hell on earth?
Though the more overt mass terror and atrocities have been paused for the time being, the globalist satanists holding the reigns of power masking as custodians of the common good have no intention of ever stopping it. But it can be stopped, if only Plato’s revolution could be resurrected. And each of us can do that right now, in his own heart, for all it takes is a simple act of the will: Say it now: "My God—who is Truth—I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love you. I beg pardon for all those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love you.”