For Rousseau, the apostle of primitivist humanity, and a milestone on the road to liberty, equality, fraternite, and to the French Revolution, the members of say the British Academy, Sir Isaac Newton and company, or the members of the French Academy, were on the very same level of equal humanity as were tribes of pygmy cannibals. In some ways, the pygmy cannibals were considered further advanced and more pure, in that they had not been corrupted by Western Cvilization.
The issues of such things as the abolition of slavery in the European colonies and elsewhere were merely small side shows in this enormous ideological travesty.
Cannibals sometimes embrace charismatic Christianity, but they remain noble savage Rousseau esque philosophes, all our equals, under the skin!
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The issues of such things as the abolition of slavery in the European colonies and elsewhere were merely small side shows in this enormous ideological travesty.
Cannibals sometimes embrace charismatic Christianity, but they remain noble savage Rousseau esque philosophes, all our equals, under the skin!
Terms search: General Butt Naked, General B N, Terry Gross
Here was a classic:
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