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"the rich, above all, must soon have sensed how disadvantageous to them was a perpetual war of which they alone bore the full cost, and in which everyone risked his life while only some also risked goods. besides, regardless of how they painted their usurpations, they realized well enough that they were only based on a precarious and abusive right, and that since they had been acquired solely by force, force could deprive them of them without their having any reason for complaint. alone against all, and unable, because of their mutual jealousies, to unite with his equals against enemies united by the common hope of plunder, the rich, under the pressure of necessity, at last conceived the most well-considered project ever to enter the human mind; to use even his attackers' forces in his favor, to make his adversaries his defenders, to instill in them other maxims and to give them different institutions, as favorable to himself as natural right was contrary to him.

all ran toward their chains in the belief that they were securing their freedom; for while they had enough reason to sense the advantages of a political establishment, they had not enough experience to foresee its dangers. such was, or must have been, the origin of society and of laws, which gave the weak new fetters and te rich new forces, irreversibly destroyed natural freedom, forever fixed the law of property and inequality, transformed a skillful usurpation into an irrevocable right, and for the profit of a few ambitious men henceforth subjugated the whole of mankind to labor, servitude and misery."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "Discourse on the origin of inequality"


"i ricchi, sopra tutto, dovettero presto sentire quanto fosse svantaggiosa per loro una guerra incessante, di cui facevan da soli tutte le spese, in cui il rischio della vita era comune, ma quello dei beni era loro particolare. d'altra parte, qualsiasi colore avvessero potuto dare alle loro usurpazioni, sentivano abbastanza che esse non era fondate che su un diritto precario ed abusivo, e che, essendo acquistate solo con la forza, la forza poteva togliergliele senza che avessero ragione di lagnarsi. solo contro tutti, il ricco, premuto dalla necessità, concepì in fine il disegno più meditato che sia mai entrato nello spirito umano: ossia d'usare a favor proprio le forze stesse che l'attaccavano, di fare dei suoi avversari dei difensori, di inspirar loro altre massime, dare altre istituzioni, che gli fossero favorevoli, quanto il diritto naturale gli era contrario.

tutti corsero incontro alle loro catene, credendo assicurarsi la libertà: perchè, avendo abbastanza ragione per sentir i vantaggi d'una costituzione politica, non avevano abbastanza esperienza per prevederne i pericoli. tale fu o dovette essere l'origine della società e delle leggi, che diedero nuove pastoie al debole e nuove forze al ricco, distrussero senza scampo la libertà naturale, fissarono per sempre la legge della proprietà e della disuguaglianza, d'una accorta usurpazione fecero un diritto irrevocabile, e, per il vantaggio di qualche ambizioso, assoggettarono ormai tutto il genere umano al lavoro, alla servitù e alla miseria."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "Discorso sull'origine della disuguaglianza fra gli uomini"

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  • Actual fear, real fear. I didn´t see the face inside the undergound ti´ll the end. One of your most disturbing pieces yet. Reminded me of moodysson.

    Great job.

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