The SOCIAL CONTRACT is a Fiction

How many millions of Canadians have been hoodwinked by persistent mass media messaging that employs “smoke and mirrors” to hide the truth about the legitimacy of governments in our lives?

Why is the ‘Social Contract’ a Fiction?

The **social contract** is a political theory that describes the relationship between the government and its citizens. It is an agreement between the people and the government that outlines the rights and duties of each party. According to this theory, individuals are born into a state of nature, which is characterized by anarchy and chaos. To escape this state of nature, individuals enter into a social contract with one another, giving up some of their individual freedoms in exchange for protection and security provided by the government.

The concept of the social contract has been discussed by many philosophers throughout history, including Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Hobbes believed that the social contract was necessary to prevent the chaos and violence that would result from a state of nature. Locke believed that the social contract was necessary to protect individual rights and freedoms. Rousseau believed that the social contract was necessary to create a society that was based on the general will of the people.

The social contract theory has had a significant impact on modern political thought and has been used to justify various forms of government. It has also been used to criticize governments that do not respect the rights and freedoms of their citizens. ¹²³.

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(1) Social contract | Definition, Examples, Hobbes, Locke, & Rousseau. https://www.britannica.com/topic/social-contract.

(2) Social contract - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract.

(3) Social contract Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/social%20contract.

(4) en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract.

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If the ‘social contract’ is just a theory, then perhaps our institutions of government are grounded only on a conceptual mirage. Let that sink in.

According to the Canadian Encyclopedia,

“A contract is a legally binding agreement between two or more persons for a particular purpose. It is an instrument for the economic exchange of goods and services. In Canada, contract law is administered both in common law and, in Quebec, civil law.”

How “legally binding” is the “social contract”? It is the assumption of legitimacy that underpins all legislation under which the people of Canada are currently taxed and controlled. Does it legally exist if an “agreement between two or more persons” is required for such binding to occur? I never signed or agreed to such a contract.

Does this mean that every citizen who voted for Justin Trudeau is legally bound to follow his orders? Does everyone who rejected him get a pass since no social contract was established?

“Weasel words” are used to obfuscate and deceive!

“Social contract” is just one of those many collectivist phrases that the “power class” employs to keep the “powerless class” docile and powerless.

Every time you hear weasel words like ‘social contract’, ‘social justice’ and ‘climate change crisis’, an earworm enters your mind. With frequent repetitions by politicians, public officials, your teachers, journalists, think tank eggheads, and more, those earworms take up permant residency as a nest of mindworms. The size of that nest determine the stubborn strength of your belief in that concept.

Fanatics.

When someone holds beliefs to the point of being a zealot, one wonders how they ever reached that level of fanaticism? Do members of a cult, for example, suffer from large nexts of mindworms that control their thinking and behaviours?

When I was a boy, rumours that the USSR practiced techniques of ‘mind control’ on political prisoners and dissidents of the state. Were they the earliest practioners of “brainwashing” to establish nests of mindworms in their victims?

The book ‘Psychology of Totalitarism’ by Dr. Matthias Desmet lays out his case for mass formation psychosis - a more sophisticated explanation of the conditions and processes leveraged by the “power class” to make large segments of society compliant to their wishes.

Today’s version - “unplug and tune-out”.

“Turn on, tune in, drop out" is a counterculture-era phrase popularized by Timothy Leary in 1966. In 1967, Leary spoke at the Human Be-In, a gathering of 30,000 hippies in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and phrased those famous words.

I was sixteen when Leary was speaking to those hippies. Perhaps “unplug and tune out” is a better message for today. It is one way to avoid the pesky, state-sanctioned earworms from doing their best to make a home in your head. It may be best to avoid the CBC, CNN, Toronto Star and other legacy disseminators of propaganda-carrying earworms whenever possible.

Critical thinking is best.

Most of us were educated in government schools. Allegedly, those institutions of learning trained us to consume information, analyze its contents and make responsible decisions. Unfortunately, many citizens “outsource” this personal responsibility to “designated experts” who are usually named by government officials. Greta Thunberg, for example, was named as an authority on climate change by the United Nations while still a teenage girl who had not yet completed highschool.

We had all been trained to think for ourselves, have we not? There are many topics that should never to assigned to people like miss Thunberg. Critical thinking, involving a variety of perspectives and sources of data, is your best protection against earworms becoming nests of mindworms.