Civilization Is the Biggest Lie? Rights, Responsibilities & the Fight for Liberty

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Tonight on The Brushfire Mind, we dig into the uneasy relationship between rights and responsibilities. Are rights real, or are they simply the limits we place on government power? Is civilization itself the biggest lie — a fragile illusion propped up by our belief in money, law, and order?

We’ll break it down philosopher by philosopher:

Hobbes: man as brutish beast, needing Leviathan to restrain him.

Rousseau: the noble savage, corrupted by civilization’s chains.

Plato: the lure and danger of the Philosopher King — and how power attracts the most corruptible.

Locke: property, labor, consent of the governed, and the balance of cooperation.

From territory vs. property, to rights as guardrails, to the deadly sins and virtues as lessons in liberty, we’ll explore how responsibility always precedes right. And we’ll ask the ultimate question: what role should government really play?

Don’t miss this deep dive into the foundations of freedom.