So @HPluckrose & @GodDoesnt have (over)written a long defense of the Enlightenment.
Read it through the problems.
https://areomagazine.com/2017/08/22/a-manifesto-against-the-enemies-of-modernity/ …
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I don't know. I mean I kind of feel like writing a lengthy response to it but I have a lot of other things to write 1/?
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The premise is essentially correct as far as it goes: i.e. the "Enlightenment" (or Modernity) is preferable both to 2/?
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postmodernism and premodernism as you term them but you gloss over the deep fundamental problems of Modernity, especially 3/?
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saying that it reduces the power of the ruling class. Given the oligarchic nature of things that is either laughable, sad, or sinister 4/?
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It's a good attack on pre/postmodernism but fails as a defense of Modernity (which is certainly suboptimal at the least) 5/?
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& I would rather see thought about how we move beyond Modernity. Regarding the rhetoric there were just far too many "writerly" 6/?
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phrases that contributed to the word count but not the argument. As I said, it is a valuable argument and read but neither goes 7/?
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far enough nor in the right direction & could have stood some stylistic editing. But folks should read it anyway. 8/8
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