Rousseau was a complete jackwad in about every way imaginable.
But he wrote a paragraph of interest to the political prisoners now held in Biden's Gulag:
...“Fortune’s wheel makes strange revolutions, it must be confessed; but for the term revolution to be applicable, the turn of the wheel must be complete. You are today as high as you can be. Very well. I envy not your good fortune, for mine is better still. I am as low in the career of ambition as a man can well descend; so that, let this capricious dame, fortune, turn her wheel ever so little–I must necessarily mount, for the same reason you must descend.”...
Some of you recall one of America's finest rock/jazz fusion groups, Blood, Sweat, and Tears. They recorded a musical version of the above, called "Spinning Wheel"
They were very good, and so was that passage from Rousseau.
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