OMOLIVES, While your Rousseau quote has be a bit curious to look a bit at him again, do you understand what i mean when i say your
" Do you not understand what I was saying:
Bingo. Corruption and ineptness...compounded by.... falsehoods and idiocy spread by all media outlets and social media.
Hello?????????? :)"
feels, a bit presumptuous, arrogant, smartalecky (my word.)
I just don't understand why you chose that approach.
And could you explained briefly in your own words exactly how you feel
"Rousseau has infamously been misinterpreted for years by both left, right, and other political ideologies."
Do you mean only by political ideologues? How about by others?
Finally, judging by the emphasis placed in the quote you used, and by your comment, am guessing you agree with Rousseau saying "that humankind is good by nature but is corrupted by society"
Just to be sure where you are coming from.
PS: Afterthought, maybe by misinterpreted you mean ideologues across the political spectrum have been saying, or do say, that Rousseau believed humankind is basically corrupt by nature.
Am thinking maybe two or three exchanges a day for a day or three to be more sure we understand each other. on this score. \\ .
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”