{"id":953,"date":"2025-09-10T16:08:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=953"},"modified":"2025-09-10T16:08:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:08:29","slug":"stupid-word-games-and-stolen-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Word Games and Stolen Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Critique of Rousseau&#8217;s <em>Social Contract<\/em>, part 15<\/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-15%3A3?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This week we&#8217;re finishing Book 3, taking a look at Chapters 16-18. Rousseau spends a lot of time building up these weird word games that give the same thing multiple names in order to give it a veneer of legitimacy, but he doesn&#8217;t retract any of his previous ideas about the unlimited power of the State or the duty of a State&#8217;s people to preserve it, both of which lead to major negative incentives which Rousseau conveniently ignores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Full notes <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/part-15.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Usually, these weird definitions and re-definitions are used by shysters to convince people that there is a method behind the madness of an oppressive State, and Rousseau is no innovator in that place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This video is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/rousseau-pt-15:3\">Odysee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/stwlk8-Wq5M\">YouTube<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/update_video\/Ee429ROfU3pk\">BitChute<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Return to the <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?page_id=769\">Table of Contents<\/a> for this series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Intro quote by Patrick Henry, from his remarks on June 5, 1788:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redhill.org\/speeches-writings\/liberty-or-empire\/\">https:\/\/www.redhill.org\/speeches-writings\/liberty-or-empire\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Intro music by Zakhar Valaha, courtesy Pixabay:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/good_b_music-22836301\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/good_b_music-22836301\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Thumbnail image made with Scrabalize:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/wordsmith.org\/scrabble\/\">https:\/\/wordsmith.org\/scrabble\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critique of Rousseau&#8217;s Social Contract, part 15 This week we&#8217;re finishing Book 3, taking a look at Chapters 16-18. Rousseau spends a lot of time building up these weird word games that give the same thing multiple names in order to give it a veneer of legitimacy, but he doesn&#8217;t retract any of his previous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,4,2],"tags":[246,86,269,60,19,85,236,72,270,199,202],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy","category-political","category-video-link","tag-critique","tag-freedom","tag-jean-jacques-rousseau","tag-libertarian","tag-liberty","tag-philosophy","tag-political-philosophy","tag-politics","tag-social-contract","tag-study-guide","tag-voluntaryism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thumb-15.png?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}