Allowing this arguendo, I wonder what makes novel ideas more durable--say, I don't know, tolerant attitudes toward speech or religion Free speech absolutism came with the boomers (!!) but seems to be quite tenuous Religious toleration set in hard in the West after Westphalia?
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In a hundred years maybe?
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Agreed. "bad ideas" are almost always good-bad composites, and the good only becomes extricable with further work.
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(this is one interpretation of the biblical "tree of knowledge of good and evil" - why is that a bad thing? - only God can have both good and evil and see them separately. Man on earth, if he has both, must have them mixed; all our powers of discernment are compromised by
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Regarding grace, this is a kind of Brechtian proverb: take hope: everything dies even evil
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