Who is Dumber?

A lot has gone wrong with Great Britain since the death of Churchill and the collapse of the empire. The sun now sets on British soil and the possibility looms of it not rising again. Between welfare statism and rampant political correctism there seems to be not much left of the old starch.

Try this on for size:

Dumb and Dumber

The question would be who is more guilty of manifestation of abject ignorance here? Certainly the limp-wristed panty-waists of the United Nations are serious contenders. The belief that the unsocialized savages that are three-year-olds can be taught to respect the conceptual rights of other cultures is a fantasy of the highest order that puts UNICEF into contention for that championship.

But coming up quickly is the UK bunch with their program of “Rights Respecting Schools” to inculcate these dubious values in the little beasties. The quaint indoctrination practice of creating posters that become mottos, slogans and blindly accepted truisms is truly and appropriately (considering the venue) Orwellian. I simply love the right of Beanstalk Jack’s nemesis giant to be bad! And, of course, his right to have a castle. I wonder if his right gets constrained when they recall that his home, by definition already is. These are basics that we can all embrace. I suspect that the UN new-worlders didn’t have that in mind, but if you unleash a stupid program to be administered by people stupid enough to think it is a good idea, you’re going to run a serious risk of the train running down uncharted tracks.

It would be illustrative to the diplomats of the UN to spend a couple of days locked up with a herd of those three-year-olds. They might quickly realize the fundamental truth that most of the world is uncivilized and very close to the same survivalist selfishness of those tiny monsters. The concept of “rights” extending beyond the inalienable trio expressed by Jefferson and Locke is an idealistic wet-dream. We only have those rights we earn, we demand and that we will defend. Rights aren’t bestowed, they are earned. Only then are they valued and appreciated. The three-year-olds know that.

Apparently the UN folks and the British educators haven’t realized it yet or else somewhere along the way they forgot it.