The Universal Proclamation of Cultural Rights

By Mel C. Thompson

Did you ever get into an argument about Cancel Culture and didn't know what to say? Did you ever think something was wrong with Cancel Culture but no one could tell you exactly what it was? Did Cancel Culture ever make you feel that somehow something fundamental to human rights was being lost but you found you didn't have a way to express that?

Did you ever lose a debate about Cancel Culture because you had no one to quote from and no book to go to about what was wrong with Cancel Culture? And even if you found a book that complained about Cancel Culture, did it ever just seem like a string of sad stories without any unifying theme to seize upon? Did you find yourself giving up on the subject of Cancel Culture and just concluding that we'd all have to live with it forever no matter how evil it seemed? And did you finally just shrug your shoulders and figure that having no human rights was just the new normal?

You are not alone. Even the most sophisticated minds on the planet are reduced to complaining that they don't like the absolute dictatorship of Cancel Culture, but the complaints come with no firm set of principles as to precisely why the people of Cancel Culture have no right to rule over us as absolute dictators. Even the major political commentators who say that Cancel Culture ought to stop somehow have not been able to produce a toolkit to fight it with. I believe this book is that tool you've been looking for to help you define what's wrong with Cancel Culture and how, verbally, to fight it and help utterly discredit it forever.

It's a repetitive-but-evolving work which teaches the reader how human rights logic works, and, by implication, shows how and why Cancel Culture has taken all of our human rights away. Cancel Culture is not merely silly or crazy or annoying, rather it is the greatest threat in the history of the world to the sovereignty each person must be allowed to have over his or her own mind. And no, you've not been losing your mind. It's not a misunderstanding. Cancel Culture is a real dictatorship which has taken away your beloved entertainers, writers, poets, artists, pundits and comedians.

This book seeks to thoroughly reverse the language of Cancel Culture and asserts, at every turn, that politically incorrect people not only have the right to live, but the right to thrive and prosper in all sectors of society. The axioms in this book were not merely written to assert that we have rights, but were written to show you which rights have been taken away. Another title I thought of giving this book was, "Human Rights You Never Knew You Had."

These principles, in the form of repetitive axioms, are specifically designed to undo each language trick of Cancel Culture and pick it apart until there is nothing left of it. And by the time you are done with this work, you'll begin to see exactly what's been done to all of us and why it's nothing short of pure evil. This book contains the ethical axioms which, although tedious at first, have the potential, within days, to bring you a sense of relief you might not have felt in years.

This book, if you can read it carefully, no matter how painful it might be at first, offers a great reward: the personal freedom that comes with knowing that your life, your history, your experience, your culture and your own mind, really ought to belong to you; and, most critically, who you love and what you love — those really ought to be your own sacred and private domain and not the plaything of raging mobs of social justice warriors who are incapable of human mercy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mel C. Thompson
• Release date: Mar 28, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005303907

Mel C. Thompson

Mel C. Thompson is a retired wage slave who survived by working through temp agencies and guard agencies. Unable to survive in the real world of full-time, permanent work, he migrated from building to building, going wherever his agencies sent him, doing any type of work he could feign competency in and staying as long as those fragile arrangements could last. He somehow managed to get a B.A in Philosophy from Cal-State Fullerton in spite of his learning disorders and health problems. Unable to sustain family life due to depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, lack of transportation and lack of income, he lives alone in low-income housing and wanders around California on buses and trains. He began writing at the age of 14 and continues till the current day. (He turns 64 in June of 2023). In his early years he wrote pathetic love poetry until, in his thirties, he was engulfed by cynicism and fell in with a group of largely antisocial poets who wrote about the underground life of drugs, sex, alcohol, poverty, prostitution, heresy, isolation and alienation. In his fortes he turned to prose and began to write religious fiction with an emphasis on the comedic aspect of theology and philosophy. He now writes short novels focusing on the attempt to find meaning in a economic world beset with money laundering, unethical marketing, contraband smuggling, human trafficking, patent trolling, corrupt contracting and every manner of spiritual and psychological desperation and degradation. When he is not writing, he wanders from hospital to medical clinic to surgical room attempting to sustain what little health he has left after a lifetime of complications resulting from birth defects and genetic problems. When he is able, he engages in such hobbies as reading, walking, yoga and meditation; and whenever there is any money left over from his healthcare-related quests, he goes to wine tastings and searches for foodie-related bargains. Before the pandemic, he spent many years gaming various travel-points systems and wrangled many free trips to Europe. He is divorced and has no children, no pets, no real estate, no stocks nor any other assets beyond the $550 in his savings account. His career peaked in the early 2000s when he did comedy gags for a radio station and had about 10,000 listeners per week. However, currently, he may have as few as five active readers on any given day. He no longer has the stamina to promote his work and only finds new readers through ran...

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The Universal Proclamation of Cultural Rights

Evolving Human Rights In The Age of Social Media

Mel C. Thompson, Lafayette, California

Copyright © 2021

Mel C. Thompson Publishing

3559 Mount Diablo Boulevard, #112

Lafayette, CA 94549

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Table of Contents

Author’s Note

Regarding The Repetitiveness of This Document

The Universal Proclamation of Cultural Rights

Key References

Regarding The Apparent Contradictions In This Work

Everyone Violates Human Rights Including The Author of This Book

Regarding My Authority To Copy, Quote, Compile and Author Human Rights Principles

Copying Permission

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Author’s Note

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Each rule has, potentially, an innumerable number of exceptions, exemptions and objections. And while I trust the intellectuals of the world to get around to elucidating those exceptions, exemptions and objections, I no longer trust them to actually produce the rules themselves. And so it falls to me to come out and speak them without further hesitation. It is rare for a document to win hearts and minds with long-winded introductions, hand-wringing admonitions and judiciously-cautious disclaimers, qualifiers and warnings. Hence, this document offers no comfort to certainty-seekers and obsequious appeasers. Readers will have to make their own decisions about whether to accept or reject, fully or partially, any doctrine presented here. This document does not exist to hold the hands of the timid and assure them of eternal safety. Rather, this document proclaims itself boldly and without apology. I will let the job of worrying about it, moderating it, or modifying it, fall to others.

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Regarding The Repetitiveness of This Document

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This document is repetitive because the ideas in it run counter to the social, political and ethnic indoctrination most people have been exposed to, and a single exposure to the types of contrarian ideas in this document would not leave an impression on most readers. And so I repeat the same ideas many times using slightly different words; and I do this in a deliberate attempt to make use of all of the sacred words and phrases most readers knowingly or unknowingly use to evade looking at the human rights violations inherent in their favorite ideologies. A whole language has emerged to hide global human rights abuses; and this sacrosanct language employs magic words which are employed to make the human rights abuses of one’s own belief system miraculously disappear. Put bluntly, our current language defines away human rights and human rights violations, and therefore it takes a lot of repetition to isolate and expose the deceptive nature of this language.

My goal here is to leave the typical reader with no illusion whatsoever that he or she actually believes in human rights. More ominously, the vast majority of readers, if they keep reading, will find that by using this type of repetition, I have gotten around to giving human rights to their worst enemies, which they were desperately hoping no one would do. This repetition, with slight variations, is designed to cover every verbal escape hatch, so that most readers will end up, if they have the courage to go on, having to admit that they never really liked human rights regardless of how much they previously swore to love them.

The weakness in everyone’s thinking is that they all secretly believe that human rights are for people we love and not for people we despise, not realizing, of course, that human rights were never written to help us be kind to those we love, but rather they were written to insist that we grant fundamental human dignity to those we are utterly disgusted with. The whole project of human rights really concerns itself with the question of how to treat people we think are the bad guys. The question of what we ought to do with those whom we adore was never too much of an intellectual or philosophical challenge, and therefore global deliberative bodies barely fret over that. The question of how to be sweeter to those we adore, although it seems like an amazing question to all of us, has, in objective truth, almost no morally interesting content to speak of.

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The Universal Proclamation of Cultural Rights

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Everyone has the right to be free from coerced patriotism; and no one bears any duty to be patriotic or participate in patriotic behavior as a condition of working in their chosen profession; and no one bears any duty to recite or sing pledges, oaths or anthems at any time.

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Everyone has the right to retain their beliefs even if bad people have used those same beliefs for illegal or immoral purposes; and everyone has a right to endorse any belief without bearing responsibility for the actions and sayings of others who share that belief.

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Everyone has the right to freely, and without coercion, dissociate themselves with their former beliefs and adopt new ones; and everyone has the right to attempt to thrive and live the fullest life possible regardless of what their former beliefs may have been.

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Everyone has a right to believe things they think are true, even if bad people also happen to have those same beliefs; and no one bears the