@HPluckrose I liked your article and its examination of postmodernism, just that Enlightenment wasn't good, it was humanity's adolescence.
This sounds like a long and complicated conversation. You'd have to give examples.
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140 chars limit me, but I can start saying that liberal revolutions aren't usually done for a higher, noble purpose, but as...
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...a way for the seconds in the command chain to use the people as cannon fodder to get them to the top, using platitudes...
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...that are idealistic and digestible enough to convince the lower classes to give their lives for them.
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That's not really saying anything. Can you give an example?
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The modus operandi of proclaiming ideals, while in practice destroying a well working order, is the left wing way dating from...
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England's Whigs, who tried to destroy their kingdom, to postmodernism who views oppresion in science and reason themselves.
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And this is related to Enlightenment values how? The age of reason? The scientific revolution? Democracy?
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Democracy in its current form and the ideals of equality, liberty, etc. Both are flawed, but the world wasn't complex enough...
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