Rousseau is in some ways almost a totalitarian, right? Rousseau is a very mixed character. He's not a systematic thinker. Was it the distinction between natural and artificial language that led Rousseau astray on politics? So you're a left libertarian. You can always also find a very different one. Why are you skeptical of evolutionary approaches to language? I'm not skeptical of mistaken misunderstandings of evolution,. which lead to all sorts of errors in thinking about how language evolved.

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