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To: ClintonBeGone
To paraphrase this lib:

"We're smart and you are ignorant, cheating savages."

13 posted on 11/05/2004 5:49:53 AM PST by Fudd (W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1)
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To: Fudd

...and he calls it a "dialogue". Uh-huh.


18 posted on 11/05/2004 5:54:31 AM PST by ctdonath2
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To: Fudd
blue state citizens make the Rousseauvian mistake of thinking humans are essentially good

The hysterical part of this is that his reading of Rousseau is half right.

Rousseau noted that civilization turned people, all people, bad. He believed that man in a "state of nature" was basically good; goodness being defined as "yes I'll bop you over your head for your dinner and then rape your wife, but I won't put up a pretense or make excuses for why I HAVE to do it.."

It is worth noting that Rousseau was:
French
Viewed as a womanizing kooky freak by an artiste class in the 1700's that were all fairly warped themselves
Is now required reading in most college philosophy classes.

The author, while calling US ignorant, mis applied the rantings of perv to reinforce their position.

There truly are none so blind as those that refuse to see...

30 posted on 11/05/2004 6:02:31 AM PST by L,TOWM (Time to take the kid gloves OFF, Mr. President...)
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