2Tocqueville, 701.
3Tocqueville, 604.
4To facilitate reading, I will use "he" sometimes and "she" sometimes, rather than the awkward "he or she."
5Tocqueville, 605.
6Tocqueville, 55.
7Compare to Tocqueville's comment: "When conditions are unequal, no inequality, however great, offends the eye. But amid general uniformity the slightest dissimilarity seems shocking ... ." (p. 673).
8Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, "The German Ideology" trans. Loyd D. Easton and Kurt H. Guddat, Modern Political Thought: Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche, ed. David Wootton (Indianapolis: Hacket Publishing Co. Inc., 1996) 809.
9Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (New York: Penguin Books, 1986) 155-156.
10Tocqueville, 615.
11Benjamin R. Barber, Jihad vs. McWorld (New York: Ballantine Books, 1996) 12.
12Barber, 17.
13Tocqueville, 507.
14Tocqueville, 508.
15Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (Or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil) ed. Michael Oakeshott, sel. Richard S. Peters (New York: Collier Books, 1962) 100.
16I say "accurately" only to show that if there was ever a state of nature, Rousseau's model seems to me a brilliant understanding of how we would have gradually left it, thought humans may never have existed in a state of nature as described by Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau.
17Tocqueville, 628.
18Tocqueville, 242. (Tocqueville probably landed in New York or some other busy East Coast port, which explains some of this, but it really is true.)
19Tocqueville, 627.
20Tocqueville, 629
21Martin Buber, I and Thou, 2nd ed. (New York: Collier Books, 1987) 8. [Emphasis Buber's.]
22Buber says, "Even if the man to whom I say Thou is not aware of it in the midst of his experience, yet [an I-thou] relation may exist." (p. 9.) For Buber, "experience" is inherently I-It.
23Tocqueville noted this as well: "As soon as common affairs are treated in common, each man notices that he is not as independent as his fellows as he used to suppose and that to get their help he must often offer his aid to them." We do not help people because we are inherently altruistic, we help them because we want them to help us!
24Buber, 11. [Emphasis Buber's.]