Comments on: A Tale of Two philosophers: Tocqueville and Rousseau http://www.gmsplace.com/?p=2913 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:28:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mark Amagi http://www.gmsplace.com/?p=2913&cpage=1#comment-1691 Mark Amagi Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:11:12 +0000 http://www.gmsplace.com/?p=2913#comment-1691 Yes, very true. The noble savage was always a fantasy. While there is much to recommend about tribal peoples, and they certainly didn't have the destructive capacity of civilized societies, in many ways it is true that primitive life was "nasty, brutish, and short." Contrary to the beliefs of most romantic pacifists, your chances were much greater of dying a violent death, and as much as shamans might have known about healing herbs, etc., modern medicine has greatly extended our life spans. It is truly amazing that one can consider oneself to be a progressive, and yet still want to regress back to a primitive, communist lifestyle! Yes, very true. The noble savage was always a fantasy. While there is much to recommend about tribal peoples, and they certainly didn’t have the destructive capacity of civilized societies, in many ways it is true that primitive life was “nasty, brutish, and short.” Contrary to the beliefs of most romantic pacifists, your chances were much greater of dying a violent death, and as much as shamans might have known about healing herbs, etc., modern medicine has greatly extended our life spans. It is truly amazing that one can consider oneself to be a progressive, and yet still want to regress back to a primitive, communist lifestyle!

]]> By: GM Roper http://www.gmsplace.com/?p=2913&cpage=1#comment-1690 GM Roper Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:11:30 +0000 http://www.gmsplace.com/?p=2913#comment-1690 <b>"Like Rousseau, Obama feels that he has the right and the intelligence to transform American society into his own ideal."</b> It always seemed to me that all "progressives" thought that they had the right and the intelligence to transform society into their ideal. What they NEVER understood was that what they want to do is and always has been <b>regressive</b> in nature. “Like Rousseau, Obama feels that he has the right and the intelligence to transform American society into his own ideal.”

It always seemed to me that all “progressives” thought that they had the right and the intelligence to transform society into their ideal. What they NEVER understood was that what they want to do is and always has been regressive in nature.

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