Mark Levin interviews Attorney General William Barr: Philosopheranon stream of consciousness
Barr: Rousseau
Levin: Hegel
Rousseau was a philosopher who helped launch the 'romantic movement', which despite its summer of love sounding semantic was at root a revolt against reason; its goal: to impose 'the passions' of the moment as master with reason being its slave. As a 'universal', comprehensive, universal philosophy of humanity, it was bound to encourage 'passion' over 'reason' in jurisprudence, in law enforcement, in politics, in governmental power over whole populations. I imagine what would go through the minds of those using government in a deceitful, untruthful, sinister, criminal manner who excuse their 'passions' as the datum from which ALL society must yield and become subject. It would not be 'inconsistent' for them to see trusting citizens who know relatively little of what even goes on 'in the shadows' of irregular information warfare, as 'fresh meat'.
Hegel: The philosopher who viewed God not as in heaven, but in himself. Hegel described all of existence as a singular 'mind', or 'world spirit', or 'Geist' as objectifying itself in its own way on its terms, and what I, you, anyone and everyone sees as 'history' is this singular mind 'learning itself', where ALL the limits we experience in a physical reality full of objects, no matter how good AND no matter how evil, if they happen, they must be understood as 'necessary' dialectics that come into existential ontological conflicts, thesis and anti-thesis, and the outcome is a 'sublimating' of the two into a synthesis. Hegel didn't use these terms but he is best known for writing about that 'dialectic' structure of reality, and all people, minds, bodies, everything. Hegel, as all determinists tend to do, left an escape hatch for himself. While everyone throughout history and everyone living during his lifetime had minds and bodies that have only existed not as independent separate free mutually cognizant beings for their sakes, but as mere actors thinking and behaving in accordance with Geist's understanding of itself, Hegel viewed himself as the first to 'transcend' his own determinism and therefore escape determinism as such. To Hegel, all thoughts of God are people's thoughts of themselves.
Hegel was the penultimate influence of Communist Karl Marx. Karl Marx's entire philosophy, according to Marx himself, was Hegelianism 'turned on its head'. When Hegel spoke of all religions, he described it as spirit resolving its inner conflicts sublimating into history in the form of humanity. Mark 'turned that idea on its head' and said all religion (except his own) are events of humanity 'objectifying' itself into 'out there', which Marx denigrated as 'false consciousness'. Humans 'in the last resort' are in an irreconcilable conflict unless there is dictatorship of the right people (Marxists). And they don't only attack religion. ALL institutions (except their own) are to be 'appropriated' for 'better' uses for the public. The family. The country. The economic system of free enterprise. All of it is to be 'acquired' by 'the' worker's 'party'.
If Hegel and Rouuseau PHILOSOPHIES influence political movements, and successfully infiltrate a political party that produces candidates for President, and law enforcement agencies, and intelligence agencies, which is what we saw happen with the D Party, THEY BECOME A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER.
Rousseau: Attack logic, attack science.
Hegel: Attack liberty, attack opponents of Satanism.