I watched The Velvet Queen, and noticed how the two men always talked in the hushed tones of self-proclaimed priests that seem to feel as though some sort of transcendental holiness has been bestowed upon them. It's a lot like listening to Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer, who always talk as though they're ordained ministers of the holier-than-thou Church of Liberalism. There's also clearly an anti-humanist tone during the documentary blaming modern man for desecrating Mother Earth while periodically taking shots at the human race for degrading the environment. When one them talks about how some of the wild animals can pick up their scent from far away, he takes an easy potshot saying "men smell bad."  

 

It was redolent of the French Enlightenment, which even now influences French thinking.

 

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, one of the most influential philosophers of the era and considered to be one of the founding fathers of liberalism, claimed that man is born free but everywhere in chains. That is to say, man is corrupted and fallen because of civilization. Therefore, he argued, true happiness for mankind lies in a kind of pre-civilizational state of nature. This is where uncorrupted man will find his true bliss. The fatal error of Rousseau was in thinking that man ever lived in a primordial state of bliss. However, his philosophy lingers as strongly today as it did back when he wrote Emile, the book where Rousseau, the poor misfit (if you've read his Confessions) first outlined his anti-modernist thought of re-orienting the relationship between the individual and society in 1762. There are other major flaws with Rousseau's thought, even as his influence endures in the modern era, but the big one was in his claims about nature.