THE ARTIST AS A HYPOCRITE. JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU “The
Insensitive Sensitive”(1712-78) 
Jean Jacques
Rousseau, the father of THE SCHOOL of EUROPEAN TAOISM, or NAIVE IDEALISM is a
study in contrasts. He got the worst care and the best himself, but he only
gave the WORST care to others. Studying his life, it is no wonder he was
emotionally crippled. His mother died only days after his birth (FROM THE BIRTH
itself, being the first woman he made miserable or killed, of MANY…) leaving
him to his father who not only failed to educate him but also abandoned him
when Rousseau was just ten years old. Relatives of Rousseau’s mother took over care of
Rousseau but at age sixteen he ran away from an apprenticeship (that’s what we
might call JOB TRAINING) and he did it to travel. BEN FRANKLIN did the same
thing but traveled on his own for the rest of his life. Rousseau found a
patron, becoming acquainted with a certain Madame de Warens with whom he lived
for approximately nine years. She was a person with ‘connections’ who saw to
Rousseau’s education and his conversion to Catholicism, She probably did it
because he was a VERY pretty boy. WHICH PROVES PRETTY IS NOT as PRETTY DOES.
PRETTINESS IS NOT ENOUGH! AND BEAUTIFUL FACES CAN HIDE HORRIBLE SOULS! The
affair started when he was l9 years old. She was way older.
Anyway, he wasn’t much
of a Catholic. During his life, Rousseau had no problem launching and
maintaining multiple love affairs, and had no qualms in bedding married
women with absent or distracted husbands. In time, Rousseau was to return to
Madame de Warens. Who was loaded.
When he was thirty, Rousseau moved to Paris to
present and hopefully make a good deal of money off of a new kind of music. One
assumes that he was the analogue of a chick magnet ROCK MUSICIAN. In this
attempt Rousseau failed miserably. He began secretarial work and copying music
after this failure.
Now he couldn’t get the prime pussycats anymore so
he took up with a maid at the hotel in which he was staying; Thérèse Le Vasser
. She saluted the tinsel, not the man obviously. She and Rousseau were to
continue to have a lifetime relationship which brought into the world
five children whom, Rousseau -- (this man who wrote of man’s natural goodness
and the corrupting forces of institutions) -- assigned to a foundling hospital!
i.e. threw them into an orphanage! Which in those days was like a DOG
POUND.
Yet HISTORY tells us the l8th century or
“Enlightenment” period had several great thinkers and philosophers, one of
them Jean Jacques. HA!
PARANTHETICALLY, Rousseau defended the rights of
small children and spoke often of the importance of a good education. This
hypocritical act is only one paradox that makes the life of Rousseau so
contradictory. In his book “Emile”, Rousseau writes that ‘we are born
weak, we need strength; helpless we need aid; foolish we need reason. All that
we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate,
is the gift of education.’ In the orphanage, his kids barely got food much less
education. (1) In spite of this belief that each person is in need of strength,
aid, reason and so forth, he failed to even take care of his own flesh and
blood, much less give them the education he spoke so well of
OTHER TITLES PLUS CUTS
FROM THE BOOKS at the GUTENBERG PROJECT, where you can get the
writing of all the writers ….and there’s some bio stuff over at ROUSSEAU WEBSITE
Rousseau believed that man was born innately good
but that it was society that corrupted man. He argued that man was “made
unhappy by experiences that he had in society because society was distorted,
corrupt, and false.” A case of the man seeing in others what he couldn’t see
in himself.
In Rousseau’s The Social Contract, which he wrote
when he was fifty, Rousseau explains this concept of man being naturally good
but corrupted by society. The social contract is an accord, which all men enter
into by common agreement. In this book the idea is presented that the state
would give protection to the members of this contract and in return the state
gets the pleasure and opportunity to govern the members. Freedom is easily
preserved in this sort of contract because when entering the contract all the
members give up as well as gain the same rights as each other. Rousseau writes
that: “Since each gives himself up entirely, the condition is equal for all.”
(2) In The Social Contract Rousseau also states that for society to run well
there is need for a Legislator. This Legislator writes the constitution of the
state but he himself does not enforce it. The people enforce it themselves
because they are able to see the good in it even they may not be able to
recognize that good without there being a constitution of the state.
One of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s greatest works is
his Confessions. His Confessions was written nine years after The Social
Contract and is Rousseau’s autobiography. In this account of his life, Rousseau
is quick to celebrate man’s sinfulness and he considers his own sinfulness to
be what makes him human. He does not hesitate to give explicit accounts of his
sinful acts and in fact speaks highly of them. The Confessions ends with a
declaration to his readers that dares them to judge him and his morals, habits
and pleasures. “Anyone…who examines with his own eyes my nature…and can think
me a dishonorable man, is himself a man who ought to be choked,” writes
Rousseau. Then I should be choked as I think he’s despicable.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau died in 1778 when he was sixty six years
old. He spent his life pursuing literary achievements, fame and fortune.
Rousseau lived a life filled with paranoia and fear of secret enemies. He had
several brushes with the government. His book “Emile was banned in both
Switzerland and France for being sacrilegious and Rousseau was exiled. TOO
LITTLE TOO LATE, I say. Living a life without God and without good morals,
Rousseau often became afraid of resentment, afraid of persecution and often
concerned that his friends were plotting against him. This tells us he
was a classic paranoid schizophrenic a condition born of guilt. This paranoid
attitude cost Rousseau many friendships and resulted in a nervous and
suspicious mistrust of most people. When he died, Rousseau was clearly insane
and it is not surprising, considering the way he chose to live his life.
Rousseau told us that he believed man to be innately good and only sinful
because of the corruption of society (his cop out,) but he failed to realize
that it is man’s own sinfulness and unwillingness to realize his faults that is
the true cause of unhappiness in life. God provides a way for us to be truly
happy, apart from perverseness and hypocrisy. It is man’s choice to take a hold
of that and Rousseau, although he had a great, philosophizing mind, was not
able to realize the need for God in a corrupt and perverse world. (NOTE: Obviously
I'm cribbing some of this from a website.).
HIS FAVE: SAYINGS:“A
feeble body weakens the mind.” If sex makes MEN a tad tired
afterwards, then GAD, the king of skirt chasing SHOULD KNOW! Here are some
MORE! The aphorisms are FATUOUS, hypocritical, false and nothing more
than GLIB LIES. EVERY SINGLE ONE of his ‘ideas’ reveals the counterfeit
personage this twisted soul had learned to impersonate. They are as empty of
vitamins as farts! FALSELY POETIC. REVEALING of EGO, of PIQUE, of what we call
today TWEAK! I’ll bet that he died mad as “:WHOM THE GODS ABHOR THEY FIRST MAKE
MAD”
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image
of death. (It is
if your skull is empty, or if your heart isn’t FULL, or if your soul knows
you’re a lying posturing idiot and should be GUILTY about taking people on
rides….)
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my
fellows. (Famous
people didn’t treat you well? Ahhhhh.)
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not
natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Base
souls have no faith in great individuals. (indicting those who didn’t see his greatness, so I’m a
base soul I guess.)
Childhood
is the sleep of reason.(You did pretty good with adulthood, too.)
Every man has a right to risk his own
life for the preservation of it. (Duhhhhhh)
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but
truth has only one mode of being.
(Yeah babe and you weren't an expression of THAT!)
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often
unwholesome. (Yet
you craved it JJ?)
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due
only to legitimate powers. (What accounts then for the absolute obedience of the
people toward most rulers? Who are illegit as Hell)
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire
liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. (Too bad JJ couldn’t live to see the Revolution)
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but
which none have a right to expect. (Your patrons wanted you to sleep with em, eh?)
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their
carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived
a day too long?
I hate books; they only teach us to
talk about things we know nothing about.
I have always said and felt that true
enjoyment can not be described.
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks
only of earning a living.
It is unnatural for a majority to
rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action,
and a minority can. (Oh yes the French
Kings, the Louis’ did real well with a single man on top. Despotism is so tidy.)
Man is born free, and everywhere he is
in shackles.
(Ever wonder why JJ?)
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is
sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million. (Meaning you never got together two farthings, right?)
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only
in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.(makes
no sense)
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive
ourselves.
(You’re the expert on that, but you did real well deceiving OTHERS.)
Our affections as well as our bodies are in
perpetual flux.
(Meaning you couldn’t stay with a girl long.)
Our greatest evils flow from ourselves. (at last, candor)
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not
always see what that is.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
People who know little are usually great talkers,
while men who know much say little
THIS GUY NEVER STOPPED
TALKING which proves HE WAS A MAN WHO KNEW NOTHING!
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you
weed alone.
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary
life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a
young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. (Meaning you fucked everything but the wallpaper. Got
it.)
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter
consciousness during adversity.(Many a’time, ya must have wondered why God punished
you..and probably come up with answers galore, right?)
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being
heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. (Ah, an admission! If nobody heard the hand of Rousseau
clapping, he wouldn’t be out there mouthing off, trying to be someone.)
Take the course opposite to custom and you will
almost always do well.(AHA! Admission #2. Tell the world that the naïve jungle
native is more soulular than the average French aristocrat and you’re gonna
make bank and see sales go thru the roof)
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins
to die as soon as it is born, and carries in itself the causes of its
destruction.
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to
vanity.
The English think they are free. They are free only
during the election of members of parliament. (better than a KING, JJ!)
The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent
actions in mystery. Whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has
reason to conceal it. (His most deep thoughts were on the mechanisms of vice!)
The person who has lived the most is not the one
with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.(Sensualists
always tell me that. Especially the restless ones who travel a lot.)
The training of children is a profession, where we
must know how to waste time in order to save it”(MEANINGLESS !)
The
world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
(Fantasy addict!)
There are two things to be considered
with regard to any scheme. In the first place, “Is it good in itself?” In the
second, “Can it be easily put into practice?”(Note that EASY is the operational word in that sentence.)
Those that are most slow in making a promise are
the most faithful in the performance of it. (You never made promises you couldn’t keep, eh JJ?)
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to
learn, and that which he will have the most need to know. (I know. Life was tough for you.)
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless,
we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we
need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education. (He was mistreated as a kid and education was all this
warped boy had so I’ll let this one go but it proves that book larning cannot
make a many feeling or real, that the mind by itself is amoral, sensual,
predatory, unscrupulous though amusing)
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. (This always means that good things come from bad luck.
In your case JJ? It didn’t.)
We pity in others only the those evils which we
ourselves have experienced.(Did you meet other infants, abandoned at birth. Doubt
it.)
We should not teach children the sciences; but give
them a taste for them.
When an affliction happens to you, you either let
it defeat you, or you defeat it.
You forget that the fruits
belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. (That was his HIS GRAND FINALE, an
example of Fatuous and totally PHONY bogus communistic ethos.
Jean Jacques
Rousseau, Date of Birth: 6/28/1712 died 1778. 66 yrs old.
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