When science collides with sacred values, it's howled down and (if possible) suppressed. ...
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... The obvious answer is Scientism -- Science promoted as a supreme sacred value -- and the Enlightenment (in part) tried this. ...
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... But it failed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0qdgpIDzCw … Vctimological religious moralism prevailed instead. ...
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... Seems to me the "Right" is far more confused by this than the few tough liberals (represented by Haidt). ...
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... "Hey, aren't we supposed to be celebrating the collapse and humiliation of the Enlightenment at the hands of popular moral tradition?"
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... The West is probably too profoundly lost at this point to stand any chance of getting this right.
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Liberalism is the true far right. Appeals to authoritative origins only work for traditionalists (and the fascists simply lie). ...
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... The idea of a non-schismatic Right sounds cute, but no such thing is possible in modernity (outside a Tolkien novel). ...
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... Integral (pseudo-transcendent) Authority ended definitively, which is why we're having this conversation.
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