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The Hidden Story of the Social Contract

The social contract has a lot of wonderful rhetoric behind it no matter who we're sort of ascribing it to. But really the one story that's being told here is powerful men, powerful people get to continue doing whatever it is in order to make sure their interests are served first and foremost. So what you have is this kind of myth of the social contract, this invocation of a false idea. The more powerful thing here is not about the legitimization of power. It's about the fact that power will always continue as it has been.

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