Tag: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Douche and Turd; Bees and Birds…

April 27, 2023

So sad that I missed the great ‘Douche and Turd’ South Park episode (season 8, episode 8), that is, until today when I saw it. If there is a better descriptor and subsequent repudiation of public choice vs. free market election, I do not know it. I wonder if the great James Buchanan ever saw…
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Rousseau, the French Revolutionaries, Ho Chi Minh… and You

April 7, 2019

Central to the tenets and legacy of Enlightenment thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the notion of the general will drives the left to this day. It sounds democratic—but it is not. It is, the idea of the general will, an elaborate justification for a kind of intellectual aristocracy rising to power. Envision a group of Plato’s philosopher…
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