All over the goddam globe, all I'm reading about is people ranting about rights for this and rights for that, human rights, children's rights, even fuckin' animals rights and some crackhead astronomer was talkin' about the rights of other planetary bodies, whether or not humankind has the right to violate these other cosmological spaces.
I tell you, we have all collectively lost it when it comes to rights people. Nobody has any rights. We never did and we never will. What we all have is privileges. We do what we do, and act the way we act until somebody gets their nose bent out of shape and attempts to put a stop to it. At best, we tolerate each other and agree to act in certain ways, so order doesn't break down and chaos rules. Now and again, somebody doesn't agree with the order of the day, and chaos does rule. Somebody gets greedy, wants more than everybody else. Privileges get revoked, regimen and fear are evoked, and it all gets a little dark afterwards.
You want rights? You got to earn rights. You gotta' be vigilant. You gotta' be awake. You gotta' sound the alarm when the fox is in the yard and creepin' towards the henhouse. You don't wait and see if he changes his mind and raids the farm next door. But nobody wants do that. Too much work. Let somebody else do that. Then you lose your rights, and lo and behold, discover, they were merely privileges, privileges you gave up because you were too lazy to appreciate them when they were RIGHTS.
Well, you got no rights. No rights LEFT. At all.
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