A Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity https://areomagazine.com/2017/08/22/a-manifesto-against-the-enemies-of-modernity/ … via @AreoMagazine @goddoesnt @radiofreetom
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Replying to @NAChristakis @AreoMagazine and
False choice. We can have society built on Enlightenment values and seek justice for more people. May just require discomfort/protests.
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Replying to @stevenjshirley @NAChristakis and
We didn't suggest otherwise. Those values have increased social justice at an incredible rate in the last 50 years. Let's not ditch them.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @NAChristakis and
Think you did: "relatively minor partisan differences across 'liberal/conservative' split." Loud, uncomfortable protests lead to progress.
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Replying to @stevenjshirley @NAChristakis and
Not sure how that sentence fragment relates to what u are reading as our claim we can either have Enlightenment values or social progress
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Replying to @HPluckrose @stevenjshirley and
I don't rule out loud, uncomfortable protests. They are one way of drawing attention to a problem but we also need to change people's ideas.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @stevenjshirley and
Women could chain themselves to railings & throw themselves under horses but unless people cared abt women's rights, doesn't matter much.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @NAChristakis and
Here is the first part of the sentence: "Those who support Modernity should do so unabashedly and without reference to relatively minor..."
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Replying to @stevenjshirley @HPluckrose and
Lincoln joined both. And he was called a "radical." If we stick to rational/objective/modern, we risk losing depth/art/truly moral.
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No, we don't. We can have depth, art and moral values whilst still recognising that objective reality exists & society needs to work.
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