Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau :

[kentuck]

"The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[Arthur_Frain]

1. Sadly nobody on their side ever read Rousseau

Or they’d have a better handle on the social contract.

[J_William_Ryan]

2. "The falsification of history..."

Such as the ‘benefits’ of slavery.’

[malthaussen]

3. J-J did his part. He's one of the people who cite a fictitious "state of Nature"

... to justify his ideas about the origins of human society. A paraphrase: "The cannibal, once he has eaten, is the most amiable man on Earth."

-- Mal