Celebration and Duty
Both celebration and duty are mechanisms,
which diminish or eliminate responsibility.
The way in which this is true, is that annual dates
become the focus of a kind of certification.
Marriage is not so much a matter of intent and commitment,
as it is a matter of certification of achievement
of a kind and a degree of relationship.
Anniversaries become celebrations of this certification of relationship.
Birthdays become a kind of celebration
of what the drafters of the Constitution called an Inalienable Right.
On the one hand, being is its own justification.
But, on the other hand, there are no inalienable rights,
until there are those who attempt to alienate rights,
condition the dispensing of rights, in varying degrees: blackmail.
Every right is gained by means of a consonant harmonization
with the way things work.
That may constitute conformity with the laws of a political entity,
but then the rights are only enforced by the means available
to that political entity.
Rules and regulations may provide certain kinds of rights,
but they are limited rights.
They are rights limited to the scale or the slope of the situation,
defined by those rules or regulations.
Only a natural distribution of consequences creates inalienable rights.
In the United States’ Constitution, the republic is said to be constituted
of citizens with the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Those who have died from the discharge of toxins into the air,
into the waterways and into the soil, had their rights alienated.
Those who have died in wars, with compulsory military service,
have had their rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness alienated.
When the Drug Enforcement Agency can confiscate property,
without due process of law, rights are being alienated.
When a President is assassinated, his/her right to life, is alienated.
[ to be continued . . . ]
copyright 2011, 2013, ECOhealth / Eve Revere
