old rousseau audiobook autoplayed when I was in the car earlier one thing that was striking was that he was very open about describing, if not a utopia, an optimal social order but in many ways his descendents seem to have abandoned this vision
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like the social left in particular doesnt seem to have any ability to depict what an ideal society looks like from their perspective (am i missing this?) "society as it exists is hopelessly Bad" very well what do you propose we do and what does a better world look like?
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I think they have it but it's still so far out the Overton that they can't talk about it out loud.
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https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1346168202053619712?s=20 … If I had to guess, it's to avoid the charges of "This country tried X and it led to Y," Y being millions of deaths, because the leftists that espouse these beliefs don't consider their thing to be X but Z. I'm not 100% sure on this but about 75%.
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that is one of my hypotheses monocausality etc of course
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