Language as a weapon: part 1 – Conservatives
Before Hobbes In the time before Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau the European male would referred to himself as a 'Christian'. Sometime during The Enlightenment we abandoned 'Christian' and coined the term 'human'. This simple change of language empowered men to escape the grip of the church. We became free men beholden only to ourselves, our reason and to the