It's very preposterous how Rousseau was appropriated by statists (especially representative democrats), considering that he said the general will cannot be represented by the state
Deserved tbh, "The General Will" is cope and democrats themselves cope because if there were such a thing it could only be manifested as the state, if not actually be represented by it. It all culminates in the modern technocrat JRPG villain desire to "create" God as a living embodiment of what they perceive to be the general will as the ultimate cope to avoiding facing the fact that Hobbes btfo's Rousseau.
Deserved tbh, "The General Will" is cope and democrats themselves cope because if there were such a thing it could only be manifested as the state, if not actually be represented by it. It all culminates in the modern technocrat JRPG villain desire to "create" God as a living embodiment of what they perceive to be the general will as the ultimate cope to avoiding facing the fact that Hobbes btfo's Rousseau.