{"id":854,"date":"2025-06-26T12:10:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=854"},"modified":"2025-06-26T12:10:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:10:42","slug":"tricks-in-service-of-oligarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"Tricks in Service of Oligarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Rousseau&#8217;s <em>Social Contract<\/em>, part 4<\/h4>\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-4%3Aa?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">We are starting out with the first three chapters in Book 2 of Rousseau&#8217;s Social Contract this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Full show notes <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/part-4.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">We get some really bad arguments in which Rousseau abuses the terms &#8220;inalienable&#8221; and &#8220;indivisible&#8221; in order to help his system parrot the natural rights\/classical liberal terminology while having none of their logical consistency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">He goes on to try to explain whether or not the &#8220;general will&#8221; can be fallible, and ends up creating one of the most absurd and twisted-up arguments I&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Over and over again he says he&#8217;ll be pushing some of his most fundamental arguments towards later, and I&#8217;m growing ever more sure that the reason is because he wants to spend more time befuddling you and indoctrinating you so that you&#8217;ll be receptive to his egregious nonsense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The contents I&#8217;m covering in this part are so self-contradictory that I really only have one reference for you: my coverage of Locke&#8217;s chapters on Usurpation and Tyranny, because Rousseau hints at making the same distinction but ends up being so vague that he&#8217;s useless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This video is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/rousseau-pt-4:a\">Odysee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KmGI__zmpNg\">YouTube<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/video\/rcsdxS33jJlY\/\">BitChute<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?page_id=769\">Return to the table of contents<\/a> for this book critique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Locke on Usurpation and Tyranny:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=694\">https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=694<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Intro quote by Guglielmo Piombini and Bernardo Ferrero in this essay:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-wire\/rousseau-guevara-marx-and-more-moral-and-intellectual-bankruptcy-left\">https:\/\/mises.org\/mises-wire\/rousseau-guevara-marx-and-more-moral-and-intellectual-bankruptcy-left<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Intro music courtesy Pixabay:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/music\/main-title-just-a-regular-day-123252\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/music\/main-title-just-a-regular-day-123252\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rousseau&#8217;s Social Contract, part 4 We are starting out with the first three chapters in Book 2 of Rousseau&#8217;s Social Contract this time. 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