From Rousseau’s Government of Poland:
I seldom hear anyone speak of government without noticing that the principles appealed to seem to me either false or disingenuous.
Amen.
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Well, you have lots of principles you appeal to when speaking about government, so …..
OK, that was … well …. sure.Report
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“If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.”
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Sigh… Yet another reminder that Chomsky, who is certifiably brilliant, could really have been something when he stepped outside his area of expertise (linguistic theory – for which computer scientists will still remember him hundreds of years from now).
What is it about the real geniuses that takes them down a path of intellectual self-destruction late in life (Newton with astrology, Einstein with mysticism, Dawkins with misogyny…)?Report
-That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
Seems neither false nor disingenuous to me. (but then something self-evidently true could not be, right?)Report
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“Seldom” means it happens sometimes.
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And he little better than a republican or a democrat….Report