tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5916689081082263495.post4088747960445330844..comments2024-03-12T00:14:05.461-07:00Comments on progressingamerica: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Government is the granter of Rightsprogressingamericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926524162867559025noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5916689081082263495.post-30707533790599368962021-02-19T04:04:55.317-08:002021-02-19T04:04:55.317-08:00You might also want to read up on this as well (he...You might also want to read up on this as well (heck, even create an article on it if you want): https://archive.org/details/BarruelMemoirsIllustratingTheHistoryOfJacobinism/eotnesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03775611370406787384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5916689081082263495.post-75080880684679857462021-02-19T04:03:51.579-08:002021-02-19T04:03:51.579-08:00Pretty much agreed that Rousseau's contributio...Pretty much agreed that Rousseau's contribution to education was outright damaging, and what's worse is that he's considered the creator of education as a concept.<br /><br />That said, however, as bad as his contribution to education was, I'd argue his contemporaries Voltaire, Diderot, and D'Alembert's contributions to education were even WORSE, and even more reflective of the progressive ethos. Timothy Dwight certainly thought so, as did Abbe Barruel. Heck, the latter even tried to warn everyone of what they were up to. In fact, Progressivism's tendency to outright lie and manipulate about history via forgeries and all of that? Voltaire and Diderot created the dang blueprint for that crap. Heck, they even had the exact same motivations that Richard Rorty did for entering education, which was to essentially brainwash kids against Christianity and then engineer a revolution. And if this essay is of any indication, even Thomas Jefferson wanted to replicate Voltaire and his ilks' handiwork in our education system, meaning he essentially wanted to create the same crap that doomed France: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4779&context=theses<br /><br />That's also why I'm not a fan of Jefferson. Christopher A. Ferrara even gave some pretty convincing arguments that Jefferson himself engaged in massive progressive, big-government policies.eotnesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03775611370406787384noreply@blogger.com