I done got flowery on myself

Sometimes Rousseau’s thinking comes out of left field. It could be that is because his thinking is divorced from reality to such an extreme that he is no longer even talking theory, because theories are supposed to involve possible real world results, but myth or metaphysics. It could be that Rousseau’s simply thought from a different context from almost everyone around him; his childhood included losing his mother, wandering the world alone at a young age, and converting to several different sects of Christianity. If the former is true Rousseau is to be pitied, and the French Terror to be expected, but if the latter is true it is possible Rousseau could be seen in his own right as a sort of Lawgiver. A man who experienced the Europe around him at a more cosmic scale, and was able to predict trends, relativize faiths, and, as some of his disciples suggested, become a prophet of his age. Either way at times facts, empiricism, the validity of myth, and perhaps reality itself, become beholden to Rousseau’s own thoughts.