Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest  a theoretically unsatisfactory procedure and a practically costly one The bourgeois is the measure of the price paid  he who most of all cannot afford to look to his real self  who denies the existence of the thinly boarded-over basement in him  who is most made over for the purposes of a society that does not even promise him perfection or salvation but merely buys him off