c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…said, like Desad, who Camille Palia said should have been the philosopher of the enlightenment that we took to heart instead of Rousseau. But if you take Dessad to heart, then there is no ethical imperative, and the pain of others is a perfect source…
…on. And then up here 1740, this is what's called the European Enlightenment, and a bunch of French people Voltaire, Rousseau philosophers, theoreticians of how human society should be run, produced these screeds, these theoretical texts. But wild men in the…
…what happened to marxist leninism should understand that marxist leninism is traceable right back to the social contract theory of Henri Rousseau, and that western liberalism is traceable to the same root and the crisis of marxism is they just died first…
…that matter, then obviously the instrument of god's will is not representative government. The instrument of god's will is the people. Rousseau talked about this he called it the general will. It's a mystical doctrine, he said at any one time in history,…
…when he wrote his famous treatise on civil disobedience. The growth of culture is something that comes out of the animal body. Rousseau called it the general will. Man proposes and god disposes. But in the realm of civil polity, the people dispose and…
…what happened to marxist leninism should understand that marxist leninism is traceable right back to the social contract theory of Henri Rousseau, and that western liberalism is traceable to the same root. And the crisis of marxism is: they just died first…