Isis i go back to tro this frigility of the social contract. Value like that, i would certainly, certainly makes sense in terms of the twentieth and 20 first century. Would it have made any sense in the sixteenth century? Christopher de bellage,. all these terms are, are translatable to a certain degree, but none of them make any sense at the time. Wasn't very interesting. And i think this is the crisis now facing democracy, and indeed the kind of crisis facing authoritarianism. Is there social contract by authoritarian leaders can can the dedemocratic system a sort of rebuild a social contract? And tis is the big clash now, the pocee
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