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i know i shouldnt even be reading it but it's really funny that she just regurgitates justifications for the state in such overt ways
like we've got hobbes and kant and a full-throated literal liberal paternalism (mama!). penny the anti-republican queen
there's a lot of these that are like "wow that's a deep thought!" if you've never read any philosophy and you don't realize she's poorly articulating the defunct history of western thought
like just watch the end of this lecture
okay lowkey i'm the one slopping it up i'm being just as unrigorous in my response and thoughts about this but that's because the original is so jumbled lol
in some ways it reminds me of those proto anarchists that were like "guys let's just simplify the rules to a dozen or so and hang them up at the town square" but i don't really feel like drawing out the connection