How liberals think the world works: People basically abide by the law & are well-intentioned. How the world actually works: A mixture of sordid and stupid conspiracies & fuck ups over money & sex; only the most stupid offenders ever caught. Monsters walk among us unpunished.
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Replying to @tomxhart
It’s Rousseau’s fundamental error, replicated again and again. I can understand (and to a degree sympathise with) those who don’t believe in God. But those who don’t believe in Original Sin are either hopelessly, wilfully (self-)deluded or imbeciles.
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Replying to @Konstant_V
As soon as you accept human nature, it becomes obvious that the same thought error will replicate again and again in different forms. It’s perpetual whack-a-mole to keep it down. Everyone believes in original sin really; it’s just that they hide the knowledge better or worse.
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Replying to @tomxhart
So Rousseauists old and new are merely projecting it onto social structures/circumstances? Interesting formulation.
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I wouldn’t want to lay claim to what neo-Rousseauists (if there is such a thing) think. My contention is that the human mind, being formed by evolution over 100,000s of years, does not change that much. Therefore, it is no surprise that similar mistaken modes of thinking recurr.
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