Quote from Jean Jacques Rousseau's openings lines of 'The Social Contract'

This is what my mum used to say to me in order to persuade me that I had limited choices in life. My mum's interpretation is far from what Rousseau meant by this quote, but if we hold my mum's dark interpretation of this view that we have limited possibilities in life, then we will create a life of limited possibilities.

The darker views of some hostel visitors

February 3rd 2021
I judge from this period of travelling after having endured both short and long stays in hostels that in a hostel you can come across any type of person. However, in my experience most people who stay in them are generally open-minded. However, every now and again I meet people with very cynical views. Such people can be in their early twenties or late sixties. Age does not seem to be a factor ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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