Welcome to Douglas Wilson's The Plodcast, presented by Canon Press.

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Welcome to the Plodgas This is episode 2 81. I'm Douglas Wilson. Thank you for joining us

If you subscribe to Chronicles magazine and why shouldn't you you You'll notice that this month, this month being May, this month's

edition has a cover article by me. Now I was able to land a slot writing this article for them at

Chronicles. I've written for Chronicles a few times before and I submitted this article but I was astonished a very

surprised to find out that it was featured on their cover and the title of the

article is Social Contract Theory as Feathered Serpent.

Social Contract Theory as Feathered Serpent.

And this might take some explaining, so I was going to explain it for just a little bit.

But you can also get the article by getting a copy of Chronicles magazine.

So I recently read Why Liberalism

failed by Patrick Dunene.

And he was critical of the classical liberal project and had a lot of negative things to say about it and

he was well he was like a little boy running away from home who makes it out to the end of the driveway

And then and then stalls out

But the thing that I enjoyed about Danine's book is that he reminded me yet again, and I love to be reminded of this, of how much I hate social contract theory.

And here I'm talking about the left wing forms of it,

Rousseau and Hobbs, and also the right wing forms of it,

John Locke.

John Locke was more interested in preserving and protecting individual liberty, but still it's

a right-wing form of social contract theory. Now what is my beef with social contract theory and how does the feathered

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