Maybe I'm just a nerd but but I'd much rather talk with the alien scientists and philosophers than their leaders too.

"Ah, but have you considered that throwing him in prison now won't achieve anything, because philosophically..."

Eventually they took it too far though and made Hobbes "admit Rousseau was right" and he joined the revolution.

Hobbes is best known for creating a rational philosophical justification for why we should all obey an absolute monarch. Essentially he believed it was worth it to trade off any lost freedom for the security of living in the State. The funny part about this is that even though his philosophy is more or less a justification for sticking with the existing world order, he was still considered a dangerous radical and atheist, because his justification for the authority of Kings was a rational one, rather than just saying that they had a divine right to rule. He even ended up being censured by the State. It was pretty rough for philosophers back then I guess, they really couldn't catch a break.

"Derrida: Hands up, philospohy internal affairs internal affairs: you are under arrest for assuming the truth can be conceived of outside of the infinite chain of linguist symbols!"

Also follow me on bluesky social if you've managed to get an invite. Will be telling philosophy jokes on there like I used to on twitter.

Once the revolution is over the real work begins (infighting).

And that, children, is why you NEVER act in such a way that you cannot, at the a same time, will to be a universal maxim.