Most of them are not the poorest of the poor, or members of the peasantry and the urban underclass. They are educated youth, often unemployed, rural-urban migrants, or others from the lower middle class. They have abandoned the most traditional sectors of their societies, and have succumbed to the fantasies of consumerism without being able to satisfy them. They respond to their own loss and disorientation with a hatred of modernity's supposed beneficiaries; they trumpet the merits of their indigenous culture or assert its superiority, even as they have been uprooted from this culture. (查看原文)
He (Voltaire) secretly authored a pamphlet against Rousseau that revealed the exponent of children's education as having given his own five children to a foundling home. Voltaire also accused Rousseau of wanting to turn human beings back into 'brutes': 'To read your book,' he said, 'makes one long to go on all fours. Since, however, it is some sixty years since I gave up the practice, I feel that it is unfortunately impossible for me to resume it.' 'I hate you,' Rousseau wrote to Voltaire in 1760, and went on to assault nearly everything the elder writer wrote. (查看原文)
还没人写过短评呢