In the spirit of unapologetic bothsidesism, I think it's intellectual malpractice to set yourself up as a defender of "enlightenment values" if all you do by way of practice is obsess over culture war stuff and run gotcha own-the-sjws special ops missions.
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Just as I'd look for the family history of people casting themselves into the privilege commentariat, I'd look at the intellectual production history of people setting themselves up as part of the enlightenment-values commentariat.
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I was about to say, “the best way to defend a set of values is to practice them daily in your core spheres of influence” then i saw your follow-up

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At one series of esoteric lectures i used to go to, we always used to value the question asked of the speakers by Reg. "How does what you have been talking about manifest itself in your daily life?"
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As someone who believes himself to be a member of the set you describe, I think history has shown the Enlightenment project to have failed unequivocally. It would be better termed "the endarkenment" and surpassed by more historically continuous approaches to ethics & metaphysics.
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That's certainly a viewpoint, one I sympathize with, but here I'm talking about people who still believe unironically in enlightenment
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