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kleinbl00  ·  2994 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 14, 2017

I read yesterday that Rousseau summed up the world as the conflict between "natural man" and "unnatural man", or primal instinct vs civilization, and that history is nothing more than the gyration of this conflict around its equilibrium.





OftenBen  ·  2994 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Dude, Beowulf over and over again.

kleinbl00  ·  2994 days ago  ·  link  ·  

(People think you're smart when you quote Rousseau)

(Either that or breathtakingly pompous)

user-inactivated  ·  2994 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nah, people only think you're pompous if you quote someone hasn't been dead at least 200 years.

kleinbl00  ·  2994 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Shit. I should stop quoting Claire Wolfe.

lil  ·  2993 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Quoting is cool. Period.