To: Chickensoup
Jean-Jacques Rousseau coined the term "noble savage" to describe an ideal human unsullied by civilization's artifices and man-made structure. That isolation was supposed to confer on this paragon a vision and moral superiority that could not be matched by the socially contaminated.
What we're experiencing today is the "noble victim." The idea here is that if you can assert a claim of victimhood, regardless of its substance, you stand on the moral high ground and everyone below must bow to you.
So the most powerful thing you can be today is a victim of some sort. Racism, patriarchy, discrimination, abuse, rape, economic disparity, gender bias ... something.
7 posted on
07/20/2019 6:54:13 AM PDT by
IronJack
To: IronJack
So the most powerful thing you can be today is a victim of some sort. Racism, patriarchy, discrimination, abuse, rape, economic disparity, gender bias ... something.
That comes from Marxism and the division of the world into Oppressor and Oppressed.
8 posted on
07/20/2019 6:57:28 AM PDT by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: IronJack
Yep! We are in a slow motion French Revolution for sure. Also, Rousseau made the false smear that Marie Antoinette would say, let them eat cake, causing it to become the rally cry of the Godless French Revolution. Lies have serious consequences
19 posted on
07/20/2019 9:14:42 AM PDT by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
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