Sometimes I think the alt right is simply the scared right. Sadly all of their attitudes seem to spring from a basic shrinking fear of life itself. I feel like yelling, “man up and get your head in the game, we have a planet to take care of, not just your lucky little backyard”
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I have this theory that western nativists get all hung up on the Enlightenment because they really do sincerely believe that it’s the only system of thought of its kind, that it’s emergence was a rare accident, and that humanity would be lost without it
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omg same, such a sad limited worldview...
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the "no longer" is tricky too though -- they never were driven solely so
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And also basic ignorance coupled with a linear-convergent ‘ascent of mind’ mental model of history. Even altruistic developmental economics thinking is based on this. Hence incoherent ideas like ‘leapfrog’ that conflate tech adoption and political evolution.
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