The “noble savage” makes a comeback. Too bad no one in the media has any idea what you are talking about.pic.twitter.com/No7ZMpcAHN
It's incredible how pernicious the ideas of Rousseau have been The protestors' basic conviction is that human institutions have corrupted the natural state of utopia—so if we burn them down, utopia will re-emerge But as they'll find out, the world is more Hobbes than Rousseau
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Lol, it's incredible how many people think their ideas are new. All of the stuff in the past few weeks is a retread of 1968, which was a retread of 1917, which was a retread of 1848...
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Ideas are overrated as a path to understanding political positions and movements. "Defund the police" is pushed by people who fully understand the likely consequences, but believe that they and their allies will increase their political power as a result.
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It’s like you try really hard to not understand the protestors.
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