{"id":824,"date":"2025-06-04T16:17:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T22:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=824"},"modified":"2025-06-22T14:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T20:16:07","slug":"lies-in-service-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"Lies in Service of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Part 1 of my critique of Rousseau&#8217;s <em>Social Contract<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe id=\"odysee-iframe\" style=\"width:100%; aspect-ratio:16 \/ 9;\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/%24\/embed\/%40MarginalNonHermit%3A3%2Frousseau-pt-1%3Af?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Here&#8217;s the first part of this next book I decided to go through: Jean-Jacques Rousseau&#8217;s famous (or infamous, if you&#8217;re like me) <em>Social Contract<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Show notes <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/part-1.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In this part, Rousseau starts out claiming he wants to treat man as he really is, but immediately makes some simply false claims, which undermine his sincerity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">One brief bit of light is his argument against slavery, which is moderately clever, but my understanding is that he eventually gives government effectively unlimited power\u2026 kind of defeats his point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Part 1 covers the introduction and chapters 1-4 of Book 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Get the book <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/in.ernet.dli.2015.100084\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This video is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/rousseau-pt-1:f\">Odysee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lX5V5iema8s\">YouTube<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/video\/MfzD4yQFLAZI\/\">BitChute<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Return to the table of contents for this critique <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?page_id=769\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Intro quote from here:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-daily\/socialism-vs-economic-freedom\">https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-daily\/socialism-vs-economic-freedom<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Intro music by INPLUSMUSIC, courtesy Unsplash:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/lnplusmusic-47631836\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/lnplusmusic-47631836\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 1 of my critique of Rousseau&#8217;s Social Contract Here&#8217;s the first part of this next book I decided to go through: Jean-Jacques Rousseau&#8217;s famous (or infamous, if you&#8217;re like me) Social Contract. 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