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Every anti-government ideologue I've ever met seems to think that absent government humanity is made up of angels or Rousseau-style noble primitives. The 'nobl
by 001sky 13y ago
Every anti-government ideologue I've ever met seems to think that absent government humanity is made up of angels or Rousseau-style noble primitives.
The 'noble savage' [edit:absent government humanity is made up of angels meme] is more a favored construct of the left wing. See, for example the art of Gaugain, Picasso and early modernism. Unless your liberterian ideaolagues acquantences were closest cubists or something.
- tptacek 13y agoThis is like something out of a Markov generator. 'anigbrowl mentions "Rousseau" and here come "noble savages", Gaugain, Picasso, modernism, cubism, and "the left wing". Huh?
- 001sky 13y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitivism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitivism also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir