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Voltaire
>Literally starts his career as the Baroque equivalent of that guy who won't fucking shut up in cinemas
>"Wow, England is so cool! I love their feudalistic, aristocratic institutions that are so much better than our feudalistic, aristocratic institutions!"
>"Wow, Prussia is so cool! I love their absolutist and only nominally enlightened king who is so much better than our absolutist and only nominally enlightened king!"
>"Societal institutions should be based on rational thought, except for the arbitrary aristocracy that's totally cool even though I'm not part of them and almost got executed for offending a nobleman"
>"We should all be multiculturally diverse and tolerant of everyone, except for the Jews who Jew'd me out of my money once!"
>"I will defend your right to disagree with me until death... unless you happen to be a philosopher whose ideas are directly opposed to mine in which case I will get you branded a heretic by the inquisition that I oppose"
>"Let's also not forget about how Christianity needs to be destroyed!"

Rousseau
>"Having modern medicine, an agricultural system that can feed most people most of the time and clean paper to wipe my ass with sucks. We should totally go back to living in tents and chucking spears because humans are perfect and using rational thought makes us imperfect even though we're perfect!"
>"Freedom is fundamental, but what's even more fundamental is the freedom of the state to force us to be free"
>"MUH FEELS"

How did such lunatics become so influential they affected all of France and the world beyond for centuries to come? No wonder the Revolution was such a fucking mess that only ended in the restoration of the status quo.