1. Free thinkers. What exactly is a free thinker?https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/989177694309859328 …
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3. As Susan Jacoby shows in her excellent 2004 book Freethinkers: A History of American Secularisml freethinkers included the Deist and skeptical Founding Fathers (Jefferson, Paine, etc) & later, abolitionists & radicals (Susan B. Anthony, WEB Du Bois)
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4. One crucial point is that "freethought" was not just a substantial body of ideas but also a political community with specific radical agenda: separation of church & state, abolitionism, feminism, birth control
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5. Kanye West's version of free thought is very different than this tradition, for reasons I explore here:https://newrepublic.com/article/148213/kanye-wests-bastardization-free-thinkers …
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Yeah, a lot of new age spiritualist use it now too. And apparently right wing converts as well.
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Jeet is off on an enlightenment rant again *puts on reading glasses*
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Kanye's free thinking has less to do with the Enlightenment than with hypomania's 'flight of ideas'.
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