#the social contract

[philosophybits]

Truth is no road to fortune...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

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[irlmarthamasters]

the social contract (5x17) is such a top tier hilson episode and it’s not talked about enough!! god i’m soooo normal about them

#house md #hilson #the social contract #5x17

[philosophybitmaps]

#philosophy #quotes #Jean Jacques Rousseau #The Social Contract #Rousseau #society #government #politics

[blue-boulder]

house md season 5 episode 17 the social contract save me… house md season 5 episode 17 the social contract… save me house md season 5 episode 17 the social contract

#house md #5x17 #the social contract #insane episode. of course wilson likes monster trucks. go on

[hugeegosorry]

I like the social contract ending bc it feels so real. with wilson and his brother just feeling like strangers after all this time. However you have to understand this will not stop me from imagining them back bonding as a family please and thank you

#danny missed three marriages there is SO much to talk about #‚and house told me-‚ ‚what? a building told you?’ ‚oh you don’t know abo- ho boy’ #silly little fantasies #house md #in da house #james wilson #daniel wilson #danny wilson #i guess #s5 #season 5 #the social contract

[sleepy-blog]

Everyone is talking about the c word and yes it's really important its downright sad and worth taking the day off from life. But no one's talking about the social contract. Maybe I haven't watched the series long enough, but the whole episode was so eye opening between house and Wilson. The realization of them not having a social contract was what made them such good friends, house isn't a normal friend, he's invasive and is a "reality junkie" as Wilson puts it and Wilson's brother that made him who he is, and them talking about it, was so intimate and sweet

And house saying the truth to Wilson while watching the surgery and Wilson thinking that just proved his point only for house to offer to come with him, was him being such a good friend.

I feel like that episode was just as important as any other episode highlighting their relationship with each other in an intimate yet sweet way.

#house md #gregory house #james wilson #the social contract #hilson

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Jerusalem, right now.

[Eric Alterman]

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We're now seeing the final hours of Israeli democracy. Yuval Noah Harari:

To understand events in Israel, there is just one question to ask: what limits the power of the government? Robust democracies rely on a whole system of checks and balances. But Israel lacks a constitution, an upper house in the parliament, a federal structure or any other check on government power except one — the Supreme Court.

This Monday, the Netanyahu government plans to pass the first in a series of laws that will neutralise the Supreme Court. If it succeeds, it will gain unlimited power. Members of the Netanyahu coalition have already disclosed their intention to pass laws and pursue policies that will discriminate against Arab people, women, LGBTQ people and secular people. Once the Supreme Court is out of the way, nothing will remain to stop them. In such a situation, the government could also rig future elections, for example by banning Arab parties from participating — a step previously proposed by coalition members. Israel will still hold elections but these will become an authoritarian ritual rather than a free democratic contest. Government members openly brag about their intentions. They explain that since they won Israel’s last elections, it means they can now do anything they want. Like other authoritarian forces, the Israeli government doesn’t understand what democracy means. It thinks it is a dictatorship of the majority, and that those who win democratic elections are thereby granted unlimited power. In recent months I have talked with many Netanyahu supporters, and they genuinely believe that any restraint on an elected government is undemocratic. “What do you mean we cannot take away people’s basic liberties?” they say. “But we won the elections! That means we can do anything we want!” In fact, democracy means freedom and equality for all. Democracy is a system that guarantees all people certain liberties, which even the majority cannot take away.

The establishment of a dictatorship in Israel would have grave consequences not only for Israeli citizens. The ruling coalition is led by messianic religious zealots who believe in an ideology of Jewish supremacy. This calls to annex the occupied Palestinian territories to Israel without granting citizenship to the Palestinians, and ultimately dreams of destroying the al-Aqsa mosque compound — one of Islam’s holiest sites — and building a new Jewish temple in its stead. Jewish supremacy is not a fringe notion. It is represented in the coalition by the Jewish Power party and the Religious Zionism party. Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich (from the latter) has recently called to wipe out an entire Palestinian town in retaliation for the killing of two Jewish settlers.

Men like Smotrich now command one of the most formidable military machines in the world, armed with nuclear and advanced cyber weapons. For decades the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has waged a campaign to stop Iran from going nuclear, warning the world about the dangers posed by a fundamentalist regime with nuclear capabilities. Now Netanyahu is establishing exactly such a regime in Israel.

This could set fire to the entire Middle East, with consequences that will reverberate far beyond the region. It would be incredibly stupid of Israel to do something like that, but as we learnt from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we should never underestimate human stupidity. It is one of the most powerful forces in history. The good news is that in recent months a powerful resistance movement has emerged to save Israeli democracy. Rejecting the ideology of Jewish supremacy, and connecting to ancient traditions of Jewish tolerance, hundreds of thousands of Israelis are demonstrating, protesting and resisting in every nonviolent way we know. Since Friday, more than 10,000 army reservists — including hundreds of air force pilots, cyber warfare experts, and commanders of elite units — have publicly declared that they will not serve a dictatorship, and that they will therefore suspend their service if the judiciary overhaul continues. By this Tuesday, the famed Israeli air force — which relies to a large extent on reservists — may be partially grounded.

To appreciate the magnitude of this step, it should be recalled that military service is a sacred duty for many Israelis. In a country that emerged from the ashes of the Holocaust, and that has faced existential threats for decades, the army has always been off-limits in political controversies. This is no longer the case. Former chiefs of the Israeli army, air force and security services have publicly called on soldiers to stop serving. Veterans of Israel’s many wars are saying this is the most important struggle of their lives. The Netanyahu government tries to depict this as a military coup, but it is the exact opposite. Israeli soldiers aren’t taking up arms to oppose the government — they are laying them down. They explain that their contract is with the Israeli democracy, and once democracy expires — so does their contract.

The feeling that the social contract has been broken has also led universities, labour unions, high-tech companies and other private businesses to threaten more strikes if the government continues with its antidemocratic power-grab. Israelis understand the potential damage to our country. As the so-called Start-Up Nation is closing down, investors around the world are pulling money out. The internal damage is even greater. Fear and hatred now dominate relations between different sections of society, as the social contract is ripped to shreds. Government members call the demonstrators and army reservists “traitors”, and demand that force be used to crush the opposition. Israelis worry that we might be days away from civil war. But the hundreds of thousands of us protesting in the streets feel we have no choice. It is our duty to ourselves, to Jewish tradition and to humanity to prevent the rise of a Jewish supremacist dictatorship. We are standing in the streets, because we cannot do otherwise if we are to save Israeli democracy.

[Israeli Democracy Is Fighting For Its Life :: Financial Times]

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[quotessentially]

From Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract

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[raglanphd]

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[fuckyeahquotesposts]

The body politic, like the human body, begins to die from its birth, and bears in itself the causes of its destruction.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, III, 11

#quote #quotes #jean jacques rousseau #philosophy #the social contract

[philosophybits]

The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

#philosophy #quotes #Jean-Jacques Rousseau #The Social Contract #strength #authority #power #obedience #duty

[agora-bishoy]

“اعمروا الأرض متساويًا، واحملوا عين الحقوق إلى كل مكان، واحملوا الرخاء والحياة إلى كل مكان، فعلى هذا الوجه تصبح الدولة أقوى وأصلح ما يمكن أن يحكم فيها معًا، واذكروا أن جُدُر المدن لا تُكَوَّن من غير أطلال منازل الحقول، وأرى بعين بصيرتي أن كلَّ قصر يقام في العاصمة بلدٌ بأسره من أنقاض.”

جان جاك روسو، العقد الاجتماعي

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[gwydionmisha]

The Social Contract

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[philosophybitmaps]

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[salamanderinspace]

There's this tumblr post dynamic where like

Someone proposes a general rule or policy condition, usually pretty grounded in common sense

Someone else responds by explaining (with varying levels of respectability) why that rule or policy condition won't work for people with their particular needs

OP or someone in their circle responds "well obviously this isn't meant for you, it's for most people"

And then whether people do integrate the new rule/ policy condition usually depends on how much social capital the OP has and how aggressively and publically people punish transgressors

I just think this is a neat representation of the dialetic by which we have arrived at the society in which we live.

#tumblr #dialectic #democracy #authoritarianism #the social contract

[johnesimpson]

Awfully Far Out, but Not Yet Drowning

Charles Bukowski, Stevie Smith, et al.: 'Awfully Far Out, but Not Yet Drowning'

[Image: “Badlands Seascape,” by John E. Simpson. (Photo shared here under a Creative Commons License; for more information, see this page at RAMH.)] From whiskey river: Dinosauria, We (excerpt) We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings…

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#Maxims for Nostalgists #Charles Bukowski #Tennessee Williams #Valeria Luiselli #Stevie Smith #making sense of the world #making nonsense of the world #the social contract #making peace