“Rousseau’s gonna piss in the marinade glaze again!”
Image found here. What I’ve read about Rousseau tells me that he was a not a dickwad, even while clad in stylish dainty shoes and pissing in the marinade glaze.
“The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said ‘This is mine,’ and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality, 1754.
It’s pure coincidence that Rousseau’s cognoscent words are purposefully posted here, on The Overnight Open Thread.
