1. David Brooks: "That belief, championed by John Locke, or a story we tell about Locke, paved the way for human equality, pluralism, democracy, capitalism...." I like that "a story we tell about Locke."https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/opinion/renaissance-right-gop.html …
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Please stop.
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I heard that if Christopher Hitchens was still alive he would have written articles that supported the Enlightenment.
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Brooks identifies with Locke because Locke was a pundit rather than a philosopher, and a pundit, who like Brooks, acted on behalf of the oppressors rather than the oppressed, See, it's all simple, isn't it? https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/06/locke-treatise-slavery-private-property/ …
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Just finished Pinker's book; I think you do him a disservice. Separately, Galileo probably had some reprehensible opinions too. But the Earth nonetheless revolves around the sun. Enlightenment ideas transcend their originators in the same way.
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A logical extension of the history of the "Enlightenment" should be how democratic capitalism could be improved, but there's nothing. It's the End of History. There should be figures like Marx or the idea that democracies require prosperity to thrive and not backslide. Just TINA.
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