Rousseau: The Collective Will, a Concrete and Living Sovereignty

#Rousseau is no abstract theorist of law: for him, the #CollectiveWill is the people writing their own laws, by themselves and for themselves. Popular sovereignty is a living force, not a legal formula! Let us rediscover the democratic radicalism of the #SocialContract. Unlike a formalist or abstract reading, Rousseau places popular sovereignty at the heart of politics as a concrete and living reality.

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/rousseau-the-collective-will-a-concrete-and-living-sovereignty/

Simone Weil and Rousseau: A Democracy Betrayed by Political Parties

#SimoneWeil rereads #Rousseau: “We have never known real democracy” (Note on the suppression of parties). A radical critique of parties as machines that manufacture collective passion. #PoliticalPhilosophy #SocialContract“Parties are totalitarian in the germ” – #Weil denounces the gap between the Rousseauist ideal and oligarchic reality. #DirectDemocracy #Politics In her Note on the Suppression of…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/simone-weil-and-rousseau-a-democracy-betrayed-by-political-parties/

Toward a Natural and Social Contract for Collective Governance

The lack of a natural contract, extending the social contract, exacerbates crises and hinders peaceful transitions. A transparent, normative, and possibly democratic pact is urgently needed to manage our common future. EN FR #NaturalContract #SocialContract #CollectiveAction #Philosophy In the face of major socio-ecological crises, the concept of a “natural contract” emerges as an essential extension …

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/toward-a-natural-and-social-contract-for-collective-governance/

As a fan of Seth and watcher of most of his videos to date. This is one of my favorite and I think that is essential. I've been at a LOT of tables either as a GM or player and can't stress how important this is... #SocialContract. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBymJBOjwEc

The New Social Contract Between Generations : Profiguration by Fidel Molina- Luque, 2025

The cornerstone of this book is the innovative concept of profiguration, a term coined by Fidel Molina-Luque to encapsulate the essential agreement and recognition required between generations in contemporary society.

#OpenAccess

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/104035

(Three chapters)

#books
#SocialContract
#loneliness

The social contract of equals is propped up by (at least) 4 social contracts of exploitation.

A quotation from Robert Herrick

’Twixt kings and tyrants there’s this difference known:
Kings seek their subjects’ good; tyrants their own.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674) English poet
“Kings and Tyrants,” Hesperides, # 861 (1648)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/herrick-robert/78445…

Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Economic Rights?
The rise of Artificial General Intelligence #AGI marks an existential rupture in economic and political order, dissolving the historic boundaries between labor and capital. Unlike past technological advancements, AGI is both a worker and an owner, producing economic value while concentrating power in those who control its infrastructure. Left unchecked, this shift risks exacerbating inequality, eroding democratic agency, and entrenching techno-feudalism. The classical Social Contract-rooted in human labor as the foundation of economic participation-must be renegotiated to prevent mass disenfranchisement. https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14283 #ArtificialIntelligence #Labor #Jobd #work #SocialContract #economics #economy

Radical Bifurcations and New Horizons: From Spinozist Rationality to Cosmopolitics

Facing the global crisis, multiple bifurcations emerge: #PositiveBarbarism (#Benjamin), #StoppingTime, #DecolonizingMarxism (#Fanon), #SpinozistRationality, #CreativeWillToPower (#Nietzsche), #ConsciousDegrowth (#Saito), #SocialContract (#Rousseau), #Cosmopolitics (#Serres), #HackerClass (#Wark), #ClimateHospitality (#FearlessCities). Radical critique of #technology and #speed (#Virilio)…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/bifurcations-radicales-et-nouveaux-horizons-de-la-rationalite-spinoziste-a-la-cosmolitique/

Unrepresentative polls, restricted participation, limited speaking time ignore #poverty among #elderly - "giving in to pressure from employers is jeopardising the balance of #Luxembourg’s social model"

https://delano.lu/article/cgfp-union-raises-its-voice-in-front-of-the-chamber-of-deputies

Basing people's social security and retirement funds on how much they can cajole some fascist corporation into paying them during their working life is not a just or a sustainable plan.

We need a return to defined benefit retirement and/or UBI for every person earning less than $100k a year.

“The gig economy is zero rights and zero protection,” says Shaf Hussain, a food delivery courier in London.

Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-06-25/gigification-the-future-of-work/

Humans won't be replaced because AI will start giving accurate answers ALL the time.

Humans will be replaced when AI learns to ask questions.

Humanity's biggest achievement isn't the ability to find answers. Humanity's biggest achievement is the ability to ask the right questions.

How Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" Will CRUSH Everyday Americans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efLBcOiQ3CM

Imagine there is a organization engaged solely in how to take away your security and healthcare just to give people more money who are so rich that they have every security imaginably and make 1% of the population...

A quotation from Joseph Joubert

Men are born unequal. The great benefit of society is to diminish this inequality as much as is possible, by procuring for all, security, property, education, and assistance.
 
[Les hommes naissent inégaux. Le grand bienfait de la société est de diminuer cette inégalité autant qu’il est possible, en procurant à tous la sûreté, la propriété nécessaire, l’éducation et les secours.]

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 14 “Des Gouvernements [On Governments],” ¶ 38 (1850 ed.) [tr. Calvert (1866), ch. 12]

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/joubert-joseph/76890…

"For Putin, it is imperative that his invasion of Ukraine is framed as a spiritual war in defence of Russo-Christian values. It is therefore hardly surprising that the church’s supreme leader gave his blessing to the war, which he has labelled “a holy war”."

Source: https://bylinetimes.com/2025/05/28/russia-war-ukraine-fake-spirituality/

And people wonder why organized religion is viewed as oppressive and cruel by so many... by me!

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@pensadorlouco Since Clisthène' demes, real democracy has been rare-communes, soviets, direct assemblies. Representative systems are oligarchic machines (Proudhon, Arendt, Weil), not true democracy. Without direct participation, there’s no genuine collective will or social contract. Democracy needs people’s voice, not just their vote! #DirectDemocracy #Oligarchy #SocialContract #History