The Great Charter of the Daughters
News from our leftwing friends in Denmark:
The teenager told police that she was attacked in central Sønderborg on Wednesday at around 10pm by a dark-skinned English-speaking man. She said the man knocked her to the ground and then unbuttoned her pants and attempted to undress her.The girl was able to save herself from further assault by using pepper spray on the attacker, but now she may be the one who ends up in legal trouble.“It is illegal to possess and use pepper spray, so she will likely be charged for that,” local police spokesman Knud Kirsten told TV Syd.The case has sparked a backlash among some Danes who point to increasing reports of sexual harassment in Sønderborg and other Danish cities at the same time that police say they are stretched too thin to properly carry out their duties.Numerous readers wrote in the comments section on TV Syd’s story about the incident that they would be willing to pay the girl’s fine, which will most likely be 500 kroner.The man who attacked the 17-year-old fled from the scene and has not been charged.
My comment: Any father with a teenaged daughter will have a more primal and direction emotional reaction to this news. To those of you who are not fathers with teen daughters, let me explain it this way: the only reason, I say again, the only reason why fathers tolerate the annoyances, servility, self-abnegation, self-control, and cost in taxes and obedience to lawful authority, the only reason why we adhere to a code of gentlemanly politeness and do not kill all who exasperate us with truncheons made from the thigh-bone of an antelope, I say for a third time, the sole reason, is because we think that civilization and obedience to a well ordered society will promote more safety and wellbeing for our daughters.
Our sons, for men like us, should be able to take care of themselves. We showed them how to make a truncheon from the thighbone of an antilope, and so they are on their own.
Now, that is the trade. That is the deal. That was the bargain made in prehistoric times between some primordial King John and his primordial barons at the primitive equivalent of Runnymede. The terms of this prehistoric Great Charter were simple enough that men without letters could remember them: protect our daughters, ye who are the strongest in the tribe, and in return we will bow and call you master, treat each other with civility and respect, will send our sons to die in your wars, and give you a tithe of the firstfruits of the hunt and of the fields, and show you such signs of honor as you demand.
In a monarchy, the sovereign is a man, and the sovereign power passes through his bloodline. In a democracy, the sovereignty is a mob, and the sovereign power passes by the whim of the majority. In a republic, the sovereignty are elected agents or representatives of the majority, but their office is hedged and fenced with laws and principles even the sovereign, out of due respect for the law, dare not overstep. But the sovereign bargain is still the same.
Thomas Hobbes was a brilliant but cynical man. He thought the social contract was based on an agreement to protect the individual from violent death at the hands of others. John Rawls was a stupid but cynical man. He thought the social contract should be voted on from behind a veil of ignorance, where the outcomes of the contract hence each man’s place in society, should not be known, and that society should buy a pig in a poke, sight unseen. Hobbes concluded that a man should willingly give up all his freedom in return for protection; Rawls that men should willingly give up freedom in return for protection, bread, and circuses.
Myself, the men I know by and large would be willing to risk violent death at the hands of others in return for the chance to dish out some violent death. I assume most of my readers run with a better class of men than I do, but keep in mind I hang out with lawyers, newspapermen, and witches.
The idea that I would trade my sacred liberty for a loaf of bread makes Rawls’ ideas beneath contempt. I assume my readers are at least human enough to share with me this contempt.
But the passion that inclines men to peace includes a due regard for his family’s wellbeing, and the obvious observation that a coordinated team, moved by esprit de corps and ably led, can overcome a larger but uncoordinated mob, and work their will on them. Even men who are proud and free and willing to fight will, under the gentle pressure of these passions and observations, quell their natural anarchic passions and desires in return for their daughters being protected by the spirit and leadership of organized life, that is, what we call civilization.
So, in this case, the sovereign in Denmark has violated the primordial Great Charter of the Daughters which the Paleolithics vowed. This is the Left. This is the Left in action.
When your daughter is raped, they would rather punish your daughter than punish the rapist. The Left has that in common with Shariah Law.
Now, you might be saying, “But the Leftists I know are perfectly reasonable people who merely disagree with me about tax rates and have an inexplicable dislike of the Second Amendment. They are goodhearted and care for the poor. They prefer peace to war. They are not the lunatic batshit crazy barking-mad scream-at-the-moon lunatics you here describe!”
My answer is that you, and they, are deceived. The Leftists you know have been bitten by the werewolf of Political Correctness, but the disease has not killed off all their braincells yet, so they are lunatics only in small ways and only in one or two areas. Their leaders, the posthumans I call Morlocks, are in the advanced stage of the disease.
The disease itself is very simple. It is a thought. It is an idea. It is an idea that kills ideas.
Evan Sayet in his book KINDER GARDEN OF EDEN proposes that the Left is fascinated and obsessed with the idea (which you can hear them express endlessly in endless variations, from the use of the word ‘diversity’ to the lyrics of the execrable hymn to socialist atheism ‘Imagine’ by John Lennon) that the cause of violence, inequity, social ills, and human unhappiness is discrimination.
The theory is that if people made no judgments, no judgments whatsoever, about each other, and never harbored a single critical thought, then differences between persons would vanish, and when those differences vanish, all the causes of war and unhappiness would vanish.
You see? Get rid of private property, and theft vanishes! Get rid of self-defense, and murder vanishes! Get rid of religion, and religious wars vanish! Get rid of human life, and human caused pollution vanishes!
But by discrimination, the Leftist, before his brain rots, means unfair, bigoted, or biased judgments, such as condemning a man as a thief for his skin color. After his brain rots, the Leftist means all judgments, such as condemning a thief for his thefts. After the brain rot, the Leftist condemns all judgments of value as discriminatory.
A judgment of value is what allows us to discriminate between virtue and vice, pretty and ugly, as well as good and evil.
There is only one way to abolish all judgments of value: detract and vilify all virtues and virtuous men, and also praise and glorify all vices and vicious men. An example of glorifying vice is to call sodomy gay, and praise sodomites as brave. An example of detracting from virtuous men is Howard Zinn’s A PEOPLE’S HISTORY, and every white man mentioned therein. An example of glorifying ugliness is all modern art.
And an example of punishing goodness is punishing a rape-victim who defends herself while lecturing us about Islamophobia, and wagging a stern finger at those who say Islam is at war with the world, and calling them phobic, and saying such words help Islam recruit.
There is no other way to achieve Leftism. Leftism is equality in every sense of the word but the true one. The true sense of the word is that we are all equal in social rank, each serf in his hut as secure in his property as a king in his castle, all equally worthy of protection by the sovereign in return for our loyalty to the primordial charter than makes the sovereign a sovereign.
The false sense of equality equalizes beauty and filth by granting filth the laurel crown of beauty and calling beauty filth.
The false sense of equality equalizes virtue and vice by granting vice the bay crown of virtue and calling virtue bad names like homophobia or intolerance.
The false sense of equality equalizes goodness and evil by granting evil the oak crown of goodness and punishing goodness as evil.
If you are a Leftist whose brain is only partly corrupted by this malignant self-imposed mental disorder, in the name of whatever sane brain cells you have remaining, repent, renounce your old ways, and turn again. Return to realty; return to life; return to the West, and civility, and civilization.
Because we civilized men have not changed on whit from our savage forefathers. Civilization is a thin veneer, a shell of armor. Once it cracks, the beast re-emerges.
Only our weapons are better and our methods more cruel now in the Atomic Age than in the Stone Age.
Now that you and yours have broken the covenant that protects our daughters, we have no reason to have the least particle of mercy on you. Be warned.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
