How to pronounce “brutish” in English

She did not dream of what had happened to her.She did not dream of Checo or of the brutish men who came later.The cave between her legs was numb, but her thighs were sticky and began to blister in the day's heat.

How many of you remember Thomas Hobbes great cave man quote, cave person quote?"The natural state of man was solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." For hundreds of thousands, nay, millions of years,depending upon where you put Homo erectus these days, most of us died before our 30th birthday.

And of course, he supported apartheid abroad.But what Trump is doing is taking it from code, from dog whistle standards, to absolute overt, naked, crude, rude, brutish intolerance, aswell as an appeal based on ethnicity, based on a certain idea of America that

of anarchy without central government. What was life like in this so-called state of nature?This is a question that thinkers have speculated on for hundreds of years. Thomas Hobbes famously said that an a state of nature the life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, andshort. A century later, Jean-Jacques Rousseau countered that "nothing can be more gentle than him in his primitive state." Both men were talking through their hats. Neither of

matter? Well, there's a reason we also call this era the Enlightenment. Namely with widespread literacy, knowledge began to replace superstition and ignorance. If a large percentage of thepopulation is disabused of certain notions such as that Jews poison wells, heretics go to hell, witches cause crop failures, children are possessed by the devil, Africans are brutish,and so on. That will undermine many rationales for institutionalized violence. As Voltaire said in this era, those who can make you believe leave absurdities can make you commit atrocities.