/lit/ - Literature

Lost his virginity to an older woman he liked to call mum

Incapable of not being a rude weirdo in social situations

Had 5 children, gave them all away soon after birth

Responded to critics who accused him of hating children by saying "What? just the other day I found a random little boy in the forest and we just started playing together, for ages, and it was awesome"

Ruined every alliance he ever had (with the exception of the woman whose 5 kids he spurned)

WHO ARE SOME WRITERS MORE AUTISTIC THAN JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU

What did Rousseau mean by civil religion

We live in a society

>>12547479
absolutely not.

Is it bad that I agree with him on virtually everything?

>>11034816
OP here. It's totally not bait. You must not have studied too much philosophy.

His discourse on inequality was actually just a critique of Hobbes and Locke. He would have won the essay contest if the judges realized this. He didn't care about equality, he just wanted to attack his predecessors with impunity.

>>10654286
To answer your question, I think the excessively well-read look down on others' layman ideas because those ideas usually aren't fleshed out in the slightest. They ask some stupid "deep" question and pretend to know what they are talking about. The well-read understand this ostentatious dynamic, and cringe because they know the layman's explanation to be a grotesque simplification of something far more complex.

Furthermore, it's easier (and harder) than ever to bullshit about various topics because of google. Interested in a topic? Read a wiki entry on it and then come up with your own theories without looking into it further.

What it boils down to is a lot of people bullshitting with no substance behind their ideas, and the people that have read A TON, roll their eyes because they see the fakery, and the lazy thinking on complex topics they *actually* know about.

>natural

"The weight of an idea is measured in blood" - Rousseau

>>10313867
She was selfish and thought her desires were important and good

*blocks your path*