"it may be that believing in this world, in this life, becomes our most difficult task, or the task of a mode of existence still to be discovered on our plane of immanence today. This is the empiricist conversion."
~G. Deleuze and F. Guattari
~G. Deleuze and F. Guattari
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Forwarded from fromage🧀🏳️⚧️ (mykytka)
The people of England believes itself to be free; it is quite wrong: it is free only during the elections of Members of Parliament. Once they are elected, the people is enslaved, it is nothing.* Seeing the use it makes of liberty during its brief moments of possession, it deserves to lose it.
(Rousseau, The Social Contract)
(Rousseau, The Social Contract)
Forwarded from fromage🧀🏳️⚧️ (mykytka)
The greater the degree of concord that prevails in public assemblies, that is to say the more nearly unanimous the decisions are, the more the general interest dominates; but long debates, dissension, and disorder are a sign that particular interests are in the ascendant and the state in decline.
(Rousseau, The Social Contract)
by particular interests he means interests of particular groups of people within society
(Rousseau, The Social Contract)
by particular interests he means interests of particular groups of people within society