QUOTE:
"True Christians are meant to be slaves."
-Rousseau, The Social Contract IV, ch. 8
...which probably explains why we don't mind representation.
More seriously, it's been interesting to me this time through the political theorist canon that I've become much, much more sympathetic to Hobbes and basically repudiated everything Rousseau stands for (his arguments are generally tests to see how many absurdities one can pile into a solitary work).
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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