> the noble savage symbolizes the innate moral goodness and superiority of a primitive people living in harmony with Mother Nature.
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In comes Rousseau, and he says, “All this new wealth is corrupting us.” The other figures of the Enlightenment were saying, “The more wealth you have, the better the society becomes.” He says that it’s corrupting us, that it’s making us less moral, it’s making us more separated from nature, it’s enslaving us. You see this argument in fascism, in Nazism and communism, all the way to modern environmentalism. Basically, it’s based on this notion of Rousseau’s noble savage.