Why did such elites accept this going outside of the Overton window? Did they recognize moral error? Or, were they forced by popular opinion and therefore we should worry that the same types of cultural elites will try to revive its acceptability when get even more powerful.
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Replying to @razibkhan @JimDMiller
Don’t forget, Boomers weren’t the ones in power quite yet. It was the older crowd. I think a lot of nihilism was born out of the war, even in the US snd it resulted in some awful intellectual ‘exercises’
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also, there was an absolute intellectual rootlessness that hard started with the collapse of EARNEST Christianity among the educated in the 1910s and earlier, the rise of Freudianism, and the general progressive / modernizing fad - all the old verities were out of date
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