@HPluckrose I liked your article and its examination of postmodernism, just that Enlightenment wasn't good, it was humanity's adolescence.
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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