@HPluckrose I liked your article and its examination of postmodernism, just that Enlightenment wasn't good, it was humanity's adolescence.
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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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...to understand. By example, democracy gives all the power in practice to media and education complexes. Its an advertising...
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...contest. Slavery was never abolished, just rebranded. So much for liberty. Ask any sweatshop worker.
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All those Enlightenment social platitudes were just to convince lower classes to die fighting for opium-filled aristocrats.
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And destroy/weaken perfectly working kingdoms and empires.
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