but you say that just as rousseau3 gained his fame by eschewing thomas hobbes,4 conking him over the head with a shovel , and burying him into a jungle-eden so deep that today no one has rediscovered the sinew of his thought , so i , an obscure part-time lecturer at two universities in the land of siam , seek the same fate , the same fame , amongst human inhabitants , but that can hardly be right .