QUOTE : There is no such thing as a "general will" any more than there is such a thing as an "average intelligence." That is to say, if we really did compute the "average intelligence" of an American, this number would probably not correspond to any actual living Americans. Every individual would be either higher or lower than the average. Likewise, when we speak of a "general will," things become even more absurd, and even if we could somehow compute such a thing, this artificial will would be at variance with all the real ones for the same reason just mentioned.