Wednesday, January 26, 2005
You have no rights.
You have three things. What you deserve. What you can affect. And what you're gonna get. That's reality, there're no rights on that list. You don't have any rights.
So let me get this straight. You're not a huge fan of ignoring the reality of the constructs of society.
Marriage, feh. Religion, yawn. Racism, boo. Gender, pshaw. Rights, I got fu*king rights!
You point out these constructs' artifice, their weakness, their falsity. Even while attesting that you have freedom of speech. Even while attesting that 'I have my rights!' and 'You can't give me a cavity search!' Even while attesting that 'My lord cannot!' run you through, from horseback, with his sword, as the Sheriff sits on his favorite stump and laughs.
You have:
1. What you deserve. Your feelings are real. That's why things hurt.
2. What you can affect. Gun, cash, bigtime lawyer, big muscles, working spine, all can be plusses.
3. What you're gonna get. This is the intersection between what you can affect and everything else. You should write a poem about your problems with it.
I guess I can understand using the rhetoric to accomplish/gain things. But that's all it is, rhetoric.
If you get a moving violation (and maybe other stuff) in California and go to court, the court arbitrarily adds a significant amount to the fine and then doubles the whole deal. Or something like that. Is that in the constitution?
