Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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For example, the eighteenth century philosopher Rousseau proclaimed that we have a very imperfect knowledge of the human heart if we do not also examine it in crowds. Gustave Le Bon, a French social psychologist, is often seen as the father of the study of crowd psychology. Le Bon believed an understanding of crowd psychology was essential for a proper understanding of both history and the nature of man. As he wrote in his classic and highly influential work, The Crowd, A Study of the Popular Mind,
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skepticism skepticism and socialism. Excuse me. It's like three in the morning. From Rousseau to ***From Rousseau to Foucault Stephen RC Hicks. He's a objectivist philosopher. I forget what university he works at. You can find Brett Fanat did an interview with him that's fantastic at the school sucks project for people who are interested. He also has a ton of videos online. You can check him out. But for what it's worth, he did a really great expose of the history philosophy that they're the, what's the word I'm looking for? But the sort of contradictory and self defeating,
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And so that's the the general bent of, the the dewy crowd, the people who think pragmatist. Right. They think you're a clockwork orange, and they can just program you with your environment, which they do on CNN all day. Literally. Exactly. On page ninety four It's not utility. Special mentions should be made of the concept of educational reform per se and its leading exponents in Europe and the United States, especially Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, this disciple of Rousseau and of the Swiss mystic radical and physiognomist
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with this idea of the social contract and then later on with Rousseau. All these he he brings he he he knows his history. He knows his, at least his, political philosophy, going back to the early modern period. And he brings it full force into the modern age, of course, into, his view of what we how we should embrace a a technological era that transcends the industrial era from which we are coming out or out of which we are coming. The sectarian communism phases and goes on and on. I mean, third, American Revolution, the pace and thrust of progress,
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here's your freedom. It's all masked up. You can't. Yeah. Okay. You need a little more Christmas, it looks like. Keep Christmas harder then. Masked up. That might be a good segue into that. Harder. Alright. Another clip. The next clip is, I was Oh, here real quick. So I found this this data point. This is on page one forty eight of explaining postmodernism, skepticisms, and socialism from Rousseau de Foucault. Steven r c Hicks. I'm not gonna pull my camera down right now, but this real quick
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scientific sense would be by you know, deterministic biology and eugenics. And philosophically, it'd be like Hobbes, a little bit of Rousseau. Ironically, even though they seem to be opposites, they're actually pointing to something quite similar. So, yeah, it's just the this continuation, this idea that what puts us in chains and how do we do to have a moral foundation to go against that or justify that we're the reason why we have we have the right to put those people in chains. And that's sort of, you know, the philosophical, you have the mathematical, the biological, the theological various arguments that Godot points out. Like, this has been a recurring train,
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people who were promoting it in Europe and the US, especially Johan Heinrich Pestalozzi, this disciple of Rousseau and of the Swiss mystic radical and physiologic physiognomist. Jeez. Physiologist. Economist. Johann Casper Laverture, having, as Swiss leader of the Illuminati, first devised a workable system of public instruction for downtrodden children. Oh, now there's a footnote there. Footnote five.