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Elaboration 10.1
Rousseau was absurd. He was the most utter disciplinarian, yet he
did not know it. Every pupil of highschool who would typefy him as a
'disciplinarian' would not pass his exam, yet he was one. In his
'Emile', Rousseau states very clearly that he would not even start
on the boy if he did not obey unconditionally. In other words, he
would start when the work was already half finished, ... discipline.
More about discipline than obeyance, one cannot say. Further on in
his book, he not so much states it again and again, as imply it
repeatedly. In his 'Social Contract', he simply 'must' assume
discipline. A contract without it, simply would not work. We know,
of course, that contracts, agreements, resolutions, never work, but
this is precisely through the absence of sanctions, i.e. and
THEREFORE of discipline. In fact, every sharing of sounds or letters
for ideas, i.e. words, language, can exist only by a standardisation
which, in its turn, hinges on discipline. But in daily life we
recognize two sorts. Obeyance of others because of sanctions, and
obeyance as an innerly-felt rational thing to do, a code. The New
World State, will not so much be based on discipline
(hetero-sanctional), but more on a rational being, a self-discipline
(auto-restraintive), as code of behaviour. No contract but
automatic, a code.
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2007-09-11