{"id":930,"date":"2025-08-20T17:40:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=930"},"modified":"2025-08-20T17:40:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:40:54","slug":"apologies-for-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"Apologies for Oppression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Critique of Rousseau&#8217;s <em>Social Contract<\/em>, part 12<\/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-12%3A5?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In this part, we&#8217;ll be covering Book 3, chapters 7 and 8. Chapter 7 is a fairly short and straightforward set of definitions marred by Rousseau&#8217;s trademark vagueness and pseudo-mathematical gibberish. Chapter 8 is, as best I can tell, a monstrous apology for several of the major problems with colonization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Get full show notes <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/part-12.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Rousseau explains that only certain people can handle liberty. We&#8217;ve all heard the arguments that only a virtuous people can maintain liberty, but Rousseau takes it a step further, stating that free peoples should hold the best lands, and other groups are used to relative poverty, so there&#8217;s no need for colonizers to deal with them on a voluntary basis, so long as they aren&#8217;t made even more impoverished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It&#8217;s a massively confusing chapter for several reasons: Rousseau&#8217;s shaky connection between the applicability of liberty and climate of all things; his insistence on measuring all government functions along a very limited number of axes; and his inability to think beyond autarkic and subsistence-farming economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This video is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/rousseau-pt-12:5\">Odysee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/c6bGnbNAGoA\">YouTube<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/update_video\/aOJEE4Jo8NdA\">BitChute<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Return to the <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?page_id=769\">table of contents for this series<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">References:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Intro quote by Frederic Bastiat<br><a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/titles\/bastiat-the-collected-works-of-frederic-bastiat-vol-1-the-man-and-the-statesman-the-correspondence-and-articles-on-politics\">https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/titles\/bastiat-the-collected-works-of-frederic-bastiat-vol-1-the-man-and-the-statesman-the-correspondence-and-articles-on-politics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Intro music by Noru, courtesy Dova Syndrome<br><a href=\"https:\/\/dova-s.jp\/EN\/_contents\/author\/profile437.html\">https:\/\/dova-s.jp\/EN\/_contents\/author\/profile437.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Thumbnail art from a painting by Charles Davidson Bell<br><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Charles_Bell_-_Jan_van_Riebeeck_se_aankoms_aan_die_Kaap.jpg\">https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Charles_Bell_-_Jan_van_Riebeeck_se_aankoms_aan_die_Kaap.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critique of Rousseau&#8217;s Social Contract, part 12 In this part, we&#8217;ll be covering Book 3, chapters 7 and 8. Chapter 7 is a fairly short and straightforward set of definitions marred by Rousseau&#8217;s trademark vagueness and pseudo-mathematical gibberish. 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