> The Hidden Rules of Modern Society | Philosophy Tube. Directed by Philosophy Tube, 2022. YouTube, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_SYW1ElDb8>. # The Hidden Rules of Modern Society - Around the 17th century, philosophers (e.g. Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke) began discussing the idea of the social contract - Humans used to be in a "state of nature", which was more or less desirable w.r.t. authors - In this state, humans were completely free, but they chose to renounce those liberties and to band together in a society with rules - Hume argues that the social contract is a wrong theory, and that our societies came to be through either usurpation or conquest - The social contract theory arose in times of political turmoil in the UK, and then in the soon-to-be US and France - In *The Sexual Contract*, Carole Pateman argues that society was built on the premise of the exploitation of women - In *The Racial Contract*, Charles Mills does the same with black people