Welcoming Unalienating
The moment I wed inalienable to a right, I have made it ‘another’, a thing, ‘a right’ (noun) to… defend or fight for – liberty, my country etc. I own it or don’t have it, I have made it, myself and the right an ‘other’.
‘Another’ is the root (Latin) of alien! Inalienable turns alien!
I propose welcoming the verb ‘to unalienate’ and divorce it from ‘rights’. The simple definition of inalienable is stronger without the attachment to ‘rights’ i.e. ‘incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred’ [Merriam-Webster].
When I unalienate I am removing you, the cat, the enemy, from being ‘another’. This affords and acknowledges our common substance – in the case of humans, our humane-ness. This ‘not-twoness’ points to the undivided yet distinguished energy of life, what I call Love (capitalized for distinction from our limited and trashed definitions!)
It may look like fighting, resisting, rebelling – but it’s no longer AGAINST an other. It’s expressing and appreciating what is truly inalienable/unalienable: Love verbing, connecting rather than dividing.
There’s no knowing exactly how unalienating verbs, but my last post is an example.
p.s. INALIENABLE: word-smithing note drawing on Merriam-Webster’s definition. ‘Alien’ 14th C – earliest meaning was ‘belonging to another’. Root Latin ‘alius’ meaning ‘other’. Its followed by examples of current usage – all coupled together with the word or inference of ‘rights’ – all three highly political and two of them completely contradictory!