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Absurdes, ironiques ou amers, ces gribouillages sont des cris du coeur: "Je crie/J'ecris/#595 378 8222 bis de l'anonyme contrainte." On y trouve une haine de la societe urbanisee et dehumanisee, qui rappelle non seulement le ruralisme de Mao, mais celui de Rousseau, de Fourier, et de Proudhon: "L'economie est blesse, qu'elle creve." "Dessous les paves c'est la plage ..." Mepris des institutions democratiques ("Referendum -- voter sa chaine et son boulet."), anarchisme ("L'emancipation de l'homme sera totale ou ne sera pas."), foi en l'action directe ("L'aboutissement de toute pensee...
...American history reels backward from the New Left to the Declaration of Independence -"the single most concentrated expression of the revolutionary intellectual tradition." Yet even in the beginning, Lynd observes critically, there was a snake in Eden. "Property, property! That is the difficulty!" cried John Adams upon rereading Rousseau's The Social Contract in the White House. "It was indeed," Lynd echoes. Even the radicals of 1776, he laments, believed that the best way to support individual freedom was by guaranteeing the rights of "property rather than conscience...
Lynd concedes that the ultimate risk of this position invites "generalized disrespect for law," but he slides away from consequences. When in doubt, he radiates an unqualified trust in the natural goodness and perfectibility of man that makes such an early wishful-thinker as Rousseau look like a cynic...
...Rousseau Voltaire
...jaded Rome's courtiers, cardinals and contesse, young Benjamin West seemed the essence of Jean Jacques Rousseau's "natural man." The handsome innkeeper's son had come in 1760 from the wilds of Pennsylvania to study painting, and he charmed with tales of how he had learned to mix pigments from the Indians, how he had made brushes from the hair of the family cat. Shown the Apollo Belvedere, he exclaimed, to their delight: "My God, how like a Mohawk warrior...