Laying the Groundwork for Monsters

The Endgame of Materialist Superstitions

“Without God, everything is permitted.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Yuval Harari argues here that “human rights” are a fantasy. His argument rests entirely upon the presupposition that the only things that are real in the world are material things - those things which can be apprehended by our physical senses.

This is the polar opposite of the founding assumptions of a country like the United States. The Declaration of Independence adopts the premise that human rights are real, and that such rights derive, not from the government, but from a transcendent Creator who superintends all governments.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

In Harari’s world, there is no Creator and there are thus no rights. Harari is laying the intellectual groundwork for a uniquely barbaric form of tyranny. He is not only unimaginative and stupid, he is extremely dangerous.